About Forrester
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Eve Maler is a principal analyst serving Security & Risk Professionals. She is an expert on emerging identity and security solutions, identity federation, consumer-facing identity and web access management, distributed authorization, privacy enhancement, and web services security. Eve helps clients manage risk and utilize business opportunities through identity and access management business and technology strategy. She is based in the Seattle area.
Prior to joining Forrester, Eve was an identity solutions architect with PayPal, developing business and technical strategies for new consumer identity services offerings. Previously, Eve managed Sun Microsystems' technical collaborations with Microsoft on web services and federated identity interoperability, and she made major leadership, technical, and education contributions to the development of the SAML standard for federated identity.
Eve holds a B.A. in linguistics from Brandeis University.
Future Look: The Identity And Access Management Playbook
This report outlines the future look of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) executives working on building an identity and access management strategy for the extended enterprise. We...

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...

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...

Portable Identity Gives New Options To Companies, Consumers, And Clouds
Fast-moving cloud and consumer identity trends are driving shifts in how IT professionals control user access and provide personalized service to networked applications. As IT professionals move to...
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...
With The SCIM Specifications, User Provisioning Goes "Zero Trust"
Business owners are jumping on SaaS services to get quicker wins, and CIOs are finding these services attractive for cutting costs as well. Since it's relatively quick and easy to hook up these...
To help security and risk professionals navigate the complex landscape of privacy laws around the world, Forrester created a data privacy heat map that highlights the data protection guidelines and...
The Language Of Levels Clarifies The Value Of Assurance
Consumer-facing web applications are beginning to rely on third-party identity providers (IdPs) for user identification, authentication, and attributes delivered at runtime. This reduces costs and...
By 2012, OAuth Will Be The Incumbent Cloud API Security Solution
Enterprises face a tension between the cloud-friendly software environment promoted by the Web, with its easy-to-use REST interface style and proliferation of lightweight services, and the security...
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....
Layer 7 And WSO2 Lead This Emerging Field
In Forrester's 15-criteria evaluation of application programming interface (API) management platform vendors, Layer 7 and WSO2 — and their solutions — rose to the top, followed by Intel,...

Road Map: The Identity And Access Management Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution to help security and risk (S&R) leaders develop their road map of IAM processes using Forrester's TechRadar™ methodology. The extended enterprise...

Prepare For Cloud Security Improvements, Along With A Tincture Of Disruption
Security professionals responsible for diverse types of access management across cloud services, devices, and populations have to pull off a neat trick: control access requests that routinely cross...
To help security and risk professionals navigate the complex landscape of privacy laws around the world, Forrester created a data privacy heat map that highlights the data protection guidelines and...

Stakeholder Needs: The Identity And Access Management Playbook
This report outlines the stakeholder needs of the Identity And Access Management playbook. Forrester has identified lack of IT executive buy-in and attention as a chronic issue in projects related to...
From frantic security operations problems to the changing threat landscape, CISOs, senior security leaders, and other IT risk management leaders consistently have trouble keeping up with key trends...

Personal Identity Management
Customer intelligence (CI) professionals face increasing pressure to give consumers greater control over the data that organizations collect about them. Forrester has published a report predicting...
The challenges of consumer-facing identity management, access management, and authentication differ in ways subtle and dramatic from those of the employee-facing variety. In fact, several vendors in...
How To Protect Your Email Data
In facing security woes such as the Epsilon breach, email marketing professionals have received a wake-up call: Security failures can cost a lot — not just a lot of money but also goodwill with...
Why Firms Need To Share Data To Become Customer-Obsessed
Enterprises seeking to better understand their customers, market, and competitive landscape can't afford to limit their insights to only what they already know — the data they generate...
Security professionals increasingly must respond to the needs of business owners exploring web application programming interfaces (APIs) as a new channel for recognizing business value. APIs can...