About Forrester
Forrester Research, Inc. is an independent research company that provides pragmatic and forward-thinking advice to global leaders in business and technology.

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.
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...

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...

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...

Desktop or enterprise single sign-on (E-SSO) is a relatively easy way to provide end user convenience and to get started in identity and access management (IAM). The end user benefits of E-SSO are...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Organizations need quantified guidance on how adoption of specific identity and access management (IAM) technologies is succeeding in order to be able to plan their projects....
Provisioning Will Extend Its Dominance Of Market Revenues
The identity management — or identity and access management (IAM) — market will grow from nearly $2.6 billion in 2006 to more than $12.3 billion in 2014 (including revenues from both...