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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.
Oracle Emerges As Leader, With IBM, Sun Microsystems, Novell, And CA Close Behind
Forrester evaluated leading identity and access management (IAM) vendors across 117 criteria and found that Oracle has established itself as the IAM market Leader due to its solid technology base...
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...
Oracle, CA, And IBM Lead, With Novell And Sun Microsystems Close Behind
In Forrester's 79-criteria evaluation of identity and access management (IAM) vendors, we found that Oracle, CA, and IBM lead the pack because of a rich IAM portfolio (both organically developed and...
Market Seeks Solutions That Support Business And IT Flexibility And Compliance
Identity and access management (IAM) continues to be a fragmented field of disjointed technologies with difficult and expensive implementation cycles and even more costly efforts in the wake of bad...
Identity and access management (IAM) is the entire aspect of maintaining a person's complete set of information, spanning multiple identities and establishing the relationship among these various...
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...
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,...
The Evolution Of Identity Management
Redesigning the enterprise architecture for identity and access management (IAM) is an important task. As organizations' requirements become more complex, and to keep administrative costs down, IAM...
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...
Centrally Managing System Administrator And Application Credentials
Managing privileged users' access to sensitive systems needs to be centralized, policy-driven, and automated: Manual paper- or spreadsheet-based solutions are insecure, expensive, don't scale, and...
Identity and access management (IAM) projects have long been plagued with their long implementation times, high services-to-license ratios, integration challenges, labor-intensive build-out and...
Six Vendors That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
In Forrester's 15-criteria evaluation of cloud identity and access management (IAM) vendors, we identified the six most significant solution providers in this category — Covisint, Lighthouse...

Six New Features And Capabilities Redefine PIM Architecture
Privileged identity management (PIM) is composed of password safes, sensitive entitlement management, and session recording and auditing. It's used primarily for managing system administrator...
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...
Identity and access management (IAM) continues to be a major topic of interest for security professionals. Between July 2007 and June 2008, Forrester's security and risk management team fielded 1,798...
Enterprise role management plays a central role in efficiently managing access rights and enforcing access policies such as segregation of duties (SoD). The processes and tools related to role...
Many companies are struggling to adopt cloud-based identity and access management (hosted IAM) because they typically end up overscoping this initiative or have a difficult time getting funding for...
Aveksa And SailPoint Lead, With NetIQ, Oracle, And CA Technologies Following
Role management and access recertification has moved to center stage for security and risk (S&R) professionals, business, and auditors. It provides higher security because it provides a better...
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...
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...
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...
Build/Buy Capabilities: The Identity And Access Management Playbook
Reducing the costs of an identity and access management (IAM) solution has been a top priority for security and risk professionals for a long time. Although IAM solutions have matured significantly...

Hope For Centrally Managing The Chaos Of SharePoint Permissions
Hard-coded authorizations in applications are hard to manage — they are difficult and expensive to constantly change to follow changing business requirements. Entitlement management (EM)...
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...