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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: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...

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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,...

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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...

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Blog:Security Intelligence: Should We Send A Guy With A Gun Or A Wrench?

We are kicking off research on security and identity intelligence, which is about understanding risk and detecting abnormal behavior.  One thing is clear: companies don't even *know* what...

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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...

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Client Inquiry:What Are The Justifications For Using Identity And Access Management?

Can you please provide the top reasons that justify investing in and using identity and access management?

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Tool:Forrester's Identity And Access Management Cost Model

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Client Inquiry:How Should We Implement Identity Management For External Customers With A Cloud Solution?

We are currently looking at implementing identity management for our external customers with a cloud-based solution. What are the risks associated with allowing write access to our Active Directory...

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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: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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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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Report:TechRadar™ For Security Pros: Strong Authentication, Q1 2012

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...

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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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Tool:Fraud Management Market And Market Shares

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Client Inquiry:How Do We Synchronize User Credentials Between Sites?

We have three stores where we store user credentials. We're looking for a solution to synchronize them, and we want to avoid having to write our own programs to do this. Are there commercial...

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Tool:E-SSO Adoption Outpaces Other IAM Initiatives

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Report:Identity And Access Management Predictions: 2011 And Beyond

Requirements For Data Security, Mobile Devices, And Cloud-Based Services Will Forge Ahead

For 2011, Forrester predicts that IT administration efficiency and business agility will become the main drivers for using identity and access management (IAM). A bevy of acquisitions during the past...

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Blog:Big Data for Fraud Management

We will be conducting research to look into how big data can be used for better fraud management. We define big data as data of Volume, Velocity and Variety. Our premise is that more and more...

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Client Inquiry:How Should Our Company Strengthen Its Privileged User And Access Management?

We are looking at strengthening our processes around access management, access control, monitoring, and auditing. We have four questions: 1) what are the adoption rates for privileged account...

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Blog:Mobile application behavior detection: the cheap way to catch fraud

After RSA's acquisition of SilverTail, things are heating up in mobile application level behavioral detection.  We see fraud management vendors increasingly looking at mobile application...

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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: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: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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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...