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Report:Simplify Identity And Access Management Processes To Reduce Costs, Increase Business Efficiency, And Make Users Happy

Policy And Procedures: The Identity And Access Management Playbook

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

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Report:Inquiry Spotlight: Consumer-Facing Identity, Q4 2012 To Q1 2013

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...

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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:Breaking Down Entropy And Passwords

Understanding The Fundamentals Of Effective Password Policies

Protecting access to information technology assets by using passwords is as old as the concept of IT security itself. Today, passwords remain a popular means of authentication. Each service guarded...

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Report:The "Venn" Of Federated Identity

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...

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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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Report:Market Overview: Privileged Identity Management

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...

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Report:Case Study: A North American Energy Company Presents The Carrot, Not The Stick, Of PIM

A North American energy company recently faced a serious challenge — it could not successfully pass Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)/North American Electric Reliability Corporation...

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Report:Shift Happened In The Strong Authentication Market In 2009

Key Vendors Made Dramatic Moves And Are Looking At A Cloudy Future

The strong authentication market is on the move — slowly but surely. Nearly half of the authentication vendors profiled in Forrester's July 2008 market overview have since changed hands. Even...

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Report:Active Directory Q&A: Demand Rises

Directory Consolidation Saves On Administrative Costs, Eases Provisioning

For the past 10 years, Active Directory (AD) has remained the backbone of identity infrastructures. Organizations continue to struggle with consolidating AD domains across the enterprise and...

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Report:Best Practices: Implementing Strong Authentication In Your Enterprise

Kill Two Birds With One Token

The adoption of strong multifactor authentication (MFA) is on the rise. It's often the first port of call on the journey to a fuller identity and access management implementation; MFA directly...

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Report:Identity And Access Management Adoption In Europe: 2008

Interest in and adoption of identity and access management (IAM) technologies has been growing steadily over the past few years, fueled both by the desire to streamline processes relating to...

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Report:Inquiry Spotlight: Identity And Access Management, Q4 2008

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...

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Report:Privileged User Management Market Overview

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...

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Report:Forrester TechRadar™: Identity And Access Management, Q2 2008

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...

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