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Report:The 15 Most Important Questions To Ask Your Cloud Identity And Access Management Provider

During the past three years, cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solutions have become a viable and cost-effective alternative to on-premises, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), or...

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Report:Simplify Identity And Access Management Processes To Reduce Costs, Increase Business Efficiency, And Make Users Happy

Policy And Procedures: The Identity And Access Management Playbook

This report outlines the process and procedures of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) professionals looking to build their identity and access management (IAM) strategy. S&R...

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Report:Inquiry Spotlight: Consumer-Facing Identity, Q4 2012 To Q1 2013

The challenges of consumer-facing identity management, access management, and authentication differ in ways subtle and dramatic from those of the employee-facing variety. In fact, several vendors in...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Fraud Management, Q1 2013

The Eight Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

In Forrester's 15-criteria evaluation of enterprise fraud management vendors, we identified the eight most significant vendors in the category — 41st Parameter, ACI Worldwide, CA Technologies,...

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Report:Prevent Insurance Crime With The Four Cornerstones Of Better Fraud Management

Insurers Must Catch Up To The Sophistication Of Today's Fraudsters

Fraud costs the US insurance industry upward of $40 billion, which the industry then passes on to policyholders in the form of higher premiums. Financial crime is on the rise as fraudsters become...

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Report:Mobile Authentication: Is This My App? Is This My User?

Strategy Deep Dive: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook

Mobile devices are everywhere: at work, in the hands of your customers, and with employees. Security and risk (S&R) professionals need to provide users with secure and seamless mobile access to...

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Report:Use Commercial IAM Solutions To Achieve More Than 100% ROI Over Manual Processes

Business Impact: The Identity And Access Management Playbook

Security and risk (S&R) executives responsible for identity and access management (IAM) must manage access to sensitive applications and data because of security and compliance requirements -- and...

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Report:Assess Your Identity And Access Management Maturity

Assessment Framework: The Identity And Access Management Playbook

An identity and access management (IAM) maturity model is necessary for assessing your current state against industry best practices, understanding your performance relative to that of your peers,...

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Report:Evolve Your Identity Strategy For The Extended Enterprise

Executive Overview: The Identity And Access Management Playbook

The rapid adoption of mobile devices and cloud services, together with a multitude of new partnerships and customer-facing applications, has "extended" the identity boundary of today's enterprise....

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Report:Actionable Identity Intelligence Protects Big Data And Zero Trust Identities

Predictive And Behavioral Analysis Finds Its Way Into Identity And Access Management

Identity and access management (IAM) professionals need to protect information and prevent unauthorized users from accessing business-critical systems in an increasingly complex IT environment. They...

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Report:Role Job Description: Identity And Access Management Architect

Skills And Staffing: The Identity And Access Management Playbook

This report outlines the skills and staffing requirements for security and risk (S&R) executives working on building an identity and access management strategy for the extended enterprise. Identity...

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Report:Identity And Access Management: 2012 Budget And Planning Guide

A Review Of Budgets, Spending Intentions, Technology Adoption, And Key Trends

To help Forrester clients with their identity and access management (IAM) strategy for 2011, Forrester predicted four significant trends. So how'd we do? We got two right and two half right. Heading...

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Report:Atlas Shrugged: Security Pros Must Adjust To The New Realities Of A Post-RSA Breach World

Plan Your Move To Risk-Based Authentication And Software-Based Tokens

The RSA breach presents IT security professionals with significant challenges regarding authentication and questions the security of the bulletproof hardware token hitherto thought to be invincible....

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Report:Case Study: Online Retailer Uses New Fraud Detection Systems To Cut Fraud Loss Rates

A North American online retailer found that fraud losses ate at profits and affected the customer experience. The retailer's manual fraud management processes could not scale with the volume of its...

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Report:Your Data Protection Strategy Will Fail Without Strong Identity Context

Protecting Information Consistently With Identity Context (PICWIC) Is A Must

According to Forrester survey data, "trusted" insiders and business partners, intentionally or unintentionally, are responsible for 43% of security breaches. The recent WikiLeaks breach illustrates...

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Report:Market Overview: Privileged Identity Management

Six New Features And Capabilities Redefine PIM Architecture

Privileged identity management (PIM) is composed of password safes, sensitive entitlement management, and session recording and auditing. It's used primarily for managing system administrator...

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Report:Case Study: A Leading Global Financial Institution Steps Up Its Campaign Against Fraud With Device Identification

When a global financial institution saw a large uptick in fraud in its commercial banking, it realized that transaction monitoring alone was insufficient. The bank needed to do more, but it was...

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Report:Market Overview: Fraud Management Solutions

Seven Tenets Of Effectively Combating Fraud Costs

Fraud causes companies to lose money in many ways: They face losses due to chargebacks, unrecoverable transfers, and unnecessary shipping costs; and spend extensive time and resources investigating...

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Report:State Of Federation, Q2 2010

Software-As-A-Service Adoption Drives Federated Access; Provisioning Still Lags

The wait is over. According to Forrester's recent security survey, adoption of identity federation jumped from less than 5% two years ago to more than 12% in 2009. Why? Because software-as-a-service...

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Report:Identity And Access Management Adoption In Europe: 2009

Uptake Of Individual Technologies Is Low, But Cloud Options Hold Promise

Interest in and adoption of identity and access management (IAM) technologies has been growing steadily over the past few years, fueled both by the desire to streamline processes relating to...

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Report:Case Study On Fraud Management: An eRetailer Reduces Order Reviews By 83%

For online retailers, the cost of fraud is more than just lost revenue — detecting and preventing fraud can slow order fulfillment, harm brand images, and increase the number of fraud analysts...

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Report:Case Study: A North American Energy Company Presents The Carrot, Not The Stick, Of PIM

A North American energy company recently faced a serious challenge — it could not successfully pass Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)/North American Electric Reliability Corporation...

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Report:Market Overview: Entitlement Management

Hope For Centrally Managing The Chaos Of SharePoint Permissions

Hard-coded authorizations in applications are hard to manage — they are difficult and expensive to constantly change to follow changing business requirements. Entitlement management (EM)...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Identity And Access Management, Q4 2009

Oracle, CA, And IBM Lead, With Novell And Sun Microsystems Close Behind

In Forrester's 79-criteria evaluation of identity and access management (IAM) vendors, we found that Oracle, CA, and IBM lead the pack because of a rich IAM portfolio (both organically developed and...

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Report:Oracle Buys Sun Microsystems — And Its Identity Management Portfolio

What To Look For From Oracle, And How To Respond

Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems' identity management (IAM) portfolio was largely unintended — the assets that lured Oracle to buy Sun were Java and its hardware business. Once the...

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