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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:E-SSO Adoption Outpaces Other IAM Initiatives

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Report:Case Study: A Leading Global Financial Institution Steps Up Its Campaign Against Fraud With Device Identification

When a global financial institution saw a large uptick in fraud in its commercial banking, it realized that transaction monitoring alone was insufficient. The bank needed to do more, but it was...

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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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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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Blog:Adding social network, geolocation, IAM logs, text analytics and link analytics Big Data to the arsenal of Fraud Management

A common theme during this week's SAS and FICO user conferences was how to use Big Data to make fraud decisions faster, more accurately and without impacting the customers in any negative way....

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Report:Your Data Protection Strategy Will Fail Without Strong Identity Context

Protecting Information Consistently With Identity Context (PICWIC) Is A Must

According to Forrester survey data, "trusted" insiders and business partners, intentionally or unintentionally, are responsible for 43% of security breaches. The recent WikiLeaks breach illustrates...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Cloud Identity And Access Management, Q3 2012

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...

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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:Case Study: Online Retailer Uses New Fraud Detection Systems To Cut Fraud Loss Rates

A North American online retailer found that fraud losses ate at profits and affected the customer experience. The retailer's manual fraud management processes could not scale with the volume of its...

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Tool:The Forrester Identity And Access Management Maturity Model

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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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Blog:Want to know hardcore survey results on Access Certification and Attestation?

  Want to know more about Access Certification and Attestation? Would you like to win an iPad and get a courtesy copy of a Forrester report on the findings of a survey on the topic?  ...

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

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Risk-Based Authentication, Q1 2012

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...

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Tool:Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Fraud Management, Q1 2013

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Report:Case Study: Improving Healthcare IT With Streamlined Access To Clinical Applications

How One Healthcare Provider Improved The End User Experience Of 1,500 Physicians

In today's healthcare environment, physicians must access a wide array of IT applications to provide quality patient care. Because of the growing number of both on-premises and SaaS-based...

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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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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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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...