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Andras serves Security & Risk Professionals. He is a leading expert on identity management, access management, user account provisioning, entitlement management, federation, privileged identity management, and role design and management. Andras covers cloud security and enterprise fraud management, which have many synergies with identity and access management when an organization needs to protect against risk and wants to manage fraud appropriately. He helps clients develop enterprise strategies for creating business value through identity management, cloud security, and fraud management.
His research focuses on strategy, cost-benefit analysis, architecture, performance and scalability of identity and access management and provisioning solutions, enterprise fraud management solutions, and role-based access control (RBAC), as well as maintenance and distributed intranet and Internet identity systems. He maintains an interest in evaluating the skill sets and core competencies of professional service providers in these spaces.
Prior to joining Forrester, Andras was a security architect with CA Technical Services through the Netegrity acquisition. Andras designed the architecture and led the implementation of Fortune 500 companies' identity and access management and provisioning solutions. Previously, Andras managed business process re-engineering projects.
Andras holds an M.B.A. degree from Technical University of Budapest and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, and an M.Sc. in computer science and electrical engineering from Technical University of Budapest.
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...
Access Recertification And Role Management Converge, Integrate With Provisioning
Enterprise role management, role mining, and access recertification help enterprises with maintaining segregation of duties, keeping up with regulatory compliance requirements, and automating...
The Six Vendors That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
In Forrester's 16-criteria evaluation of risk-based authentication vendors, we identified the six significant vendors in this category — CA Technologies, Entrust, iovation, RSA, Symantec, and...
Traditional Methods Start To Sag, While Mobile-Fueled Methods Surge
The strong authentication landscape has undergone tremendous churn in recent years as new mobile-fueled technologies have come online and as RSA, the premier vendor of hardware one-time password...
Using Identity And Access Management To Protect Your Business
Any economic downturn brings new risks to your organization. As it becomes clear that your business is struggling, nervous employees who fear downsizing may be tempted to gain unauthorized access to...
You Must Invest In Commercial Solutions To Combat Sophisticated Fraud Rings
Forrester uncovered three major trends for 2011 that organizations and vendors alike must address to combat increasingly sophisticated fraud rings. First, fraud professionals should insist that their...

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...

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...
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...

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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...