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Client Inquiry:Active Directory Password Policy

We're looking for current best practices and recommendations for Active Directory (AD) password policies.

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Tool:E-SSO Adoption Outpaces Other IAM Initiatives

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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...

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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: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: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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Blog:CA Acquires Arcot, VMWare Buys TriCipher

How  Authentication-as-a-Service becomes a part of leading IAM stacks and why virtualization is no longer a viable technology without identity and access management. CA’s acquisition of...

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Tool:The Forrester Identity And Access Management Maturity Model

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Blog:Why the Samsung Galaxy S4 is important to watch for Fraud Management professionals?

Well, we just saw Samsung launch its latest ubergizmo with tons of interesting features, like pause video playback at the blink of the eye. However, there is an important hardware feature of the...

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

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Blog:Active Directory Moving To The Cloud?

We hear a lot about cloud IAM vendors offering metadirectories or user repositories in the cloud. We predict that in 1-2 years we'll see AD being moved from on-premises installations into cloud...

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Tool:Forrester's Identity And Access Management Cost Model

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Client Inquiry:What Is Forrester's Take On VPN And Device Fingerprinting Standards?

Can you confirm or deny the following suppositions: 1) Machine certificates distributed from an internal MS CA are the best method for Windows device authentication. 2) There is no "magic...

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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...

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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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Tool:Forrester's Cloud-Based IAM Self-Assessment Tool

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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:Enterprise Single Sign-On: The Fast Lane To Identity And Access Management

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...

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Client Inquiry:How Many People Are Using Self-Service Password Reset, And How Successful Is It?

How many people are using self-service password reset, and how successful is it? What are the advantages? What are the disadvantages?

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Client Inquiry:What Are Best Practices Around Administrative Access?

I'd like to better understand whether we are using current best practices around limiting administrative access to production systems. We currently use jump servers as gateways for administrators...

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Tool:Fraud Management Market And Market Shares

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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...

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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:Build Your Identity And Access Management Strategy

Strategic Plan: The Identity And Access Management Playbook

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

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Report:Enterprise Fraud Management Predictions: 2011 And Beyond

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...

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