Forrester

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:Want to know hardcore survey results on Access Certification and Attestation?

  Want to know more about Access Certification and Attestation? Would you like to win an iPad and get a courtesy copy of a Forrester report on the findings of a survey on the topic?  ...

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:Quest Acquires e-DMZ: Get Ready For Consolidation In The PIM Space

Quest is making aggressive moves to extend into the heterogeneous, non-Microsoft-centric land of identity and access management. After acquiring Voelcker Informatik for provisioning, Quest just...

For Security & Risk Professionals

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,...

• Downloads: 1788

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:Blending Cloud IAM Delivery Flavors: Convergence Of In-House And IAM Suite Offerings

Today we see two basic flavors of cloud IAM. One archetype is the model offered by Covisint, VMware Horizon, Symplified, Okta, OneLogin, etc.: these vendors provide relatively tight integration, but...

For Security & Risk Professionals

Client Inquiry:Tiered User Security Access

I'm working on a proposal for an enhanced security standard for the employees who work on matters of particular sensitivity. This would be a standard that could be "turned on" or "off" depending on...

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:Enterprise Role Management - New Podcast!

Last Monday, Stephanie Balaouras and I recorded a podcast on a recent hot topic amongst Forrester clients — Enterprise Role Management (ERM). For the most part, people understand...

For Security & Risk Professionals

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...

• Downloads: 1018
• Comments: 5
• Rating:

For Security & Risk Professionals

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...

• Downloads: 661

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:Xmas IAM Spending Spree: Quest Software Acquires BiTKOO, Enters IAM Suite Provider Market

With only 4 stack players in Identity and Access Management, it is always welcoming news to see a new company joining the space. Quest Software is on a shopping spree: it acquired e-DMZ (privileged...

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:Forrester's Enterprise Fraud Management Wave is Out!

We just published the Forrester Wave on Enterprise Fraud Management - piece of research that has been consistently asked for by our clients. See how vendors stack up on current offering criteria...

For Security & Risk Professionals

Tool:Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Fraud Management, Q1 2013

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:Losing Patience And Token Information

As we speak to companies worldwide, many express their frustration with the cost and complexity of physical tokens. Our staple response is: "Oh yes, these solutions are hard to integrate and operate,...

For Security & Risk Professionals

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,...

• Downloads: 284

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:Watson Beats Jeopardy Champions: How Can You Capitalize On This In Risk And Fraud Management?

IBM's Watson (natural language processing, deduction, AI, inference and statistical modeling all served by a massively parallel POWER7 array of computers with a total of 2880 processors with...

For Security & Risk Professionals

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...

• Downloads: 464
• Rating:

For Security & Risk Professionals

Tool:Forrester Wave™: Role Management And Access Recertification, Q3 2011

For Security & Risk Professionals

Tool:Evaluated Vendors: Product Information And Selection Criteria

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:How Will The Extended Enterprise And Zero Trust Identities Impact Your Identity Administration Processes?

We regularly get inquiries from companies that feel the need to restructure their access controls to support extended enterprise user populations: firms have to support employees, contractors,...

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:RSA Breach: Two-Factor Authentication Is Not Dead But Is Morphing And Getting More Granular

Many IT end-user companies deployed hard tokens at a time when intermediate-risk choices were thinner on the ground, and some of these companies would have benefited from a more granular approach...

For Security & Risk Professionals

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...

• Downloads: 414

For Security & Risk Professionals

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...

• Downloads: 273

For Security & Risk Professionals

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...

• Downloads: 194
• Comments: 3
• Rating:

For Security & Risk Professionals

Client Inquiry:What Are The Costs And Duration Of Active Directory Consolidation?

We would like to know the costs and duration of active directory consolidation activities in large enterprises. We would also like to know hear about any real-life experience with active directory...

For Security & Risk Professionals

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...

• Downloads: 403

For Security & Risk Professionals

Blog:How Do You Support Splinternet Security On Mobile Devices?

Mobile authentication is nothing new.  SiteMinder, a prominent web access management tool, has been able to handle mobile browsers and sessions for at least 7-8 years. Some users complained of...