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  Report Forrester's Risk-Driven Identity And Access Management Process Framework

  Process: The Identity And Access Management Playbook

  January 6, 2017 | Andras Cser

  Identity and access management (IAM) processes have always been convoluted. They affect many people (both customers and employees), systems, and teams, and this complexity makes it difficult to...

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  Report Assess Your Active Directory Security

  Assessment: The Identity And Access Management Playbook

  August 5, 2016 | Merritt Maxim

  Security leaders often struggle to understand the gaps and potential security vulnerabilities within their Active Directory (AD) environment and to track progress at reducing those threats. In...

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  Report Vendor Landscape: Active Directory Security And Governance Solutions

  Solutions To Help You Secure And Monitor Your Active Directory Infrastructure

  January 5, 2016 | Merritt Maxim, Andras Cser

  Microsoft's Active Directory (AD) has evolved into the most widely used enterprise repository for digital identities. AD's growing importance also means it's a tempting target for hackers who...

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  Report Raise The Security Bar With Human-Factor-Friendly Design Concepts

  You Can Only Improve Security If You Care About Customer And Employee Experience

  May 28, 2014 | Tyler Shields

  Security leaders must realize that human factors contribute to the success of a security control as much as the risk reduction of the security control itself. Security leaders who choose to ignore...

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  Report Predictions 2014: Identity And Access Management

  Employee And Customer IAM Head For The Cloud

  January 7, 2014 | Andras Cser, Eve Maler

  Forrester predicts that in 2014, mobile and cloud adoption will continue to drive identity and access management (IAM) toward application programming interface (API) management. As...

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  Report Brokered Cloud Identity Is Scaling New Heights

  Identity Hub Solutions Ease Integration Pain And Offer Flexibility

  October 16, 2013 | Eve Maler

  We're moving fast into a world of loosely coupled, cloud-based data centers. Cloud infrastructure models complicate the identity and access management (IAM) landscape — and represent...

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

  April 4, 2013 | Andras Cser

  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

  March 22, 2013 | Andras Cser, Eve Maler

  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...

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

  Aveksa And SailPoint Lead, With NetIQ, Oracle, And CA Technologies Following

  August 23, 2011 | Andras Cser

  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...

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  Report State Of Federation, Q2 2010

  Software-As-A-Service Adoption Drives Federated Access; Provisioning Still Lags

  June 18, 2010 | Andras Cser

  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...

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  Report Identity And Access Management Adoption In Europe: 2009

  Uptake Of Individual Technologies Is Low, But Cloud Options Hold Promise

  May 14, 2010 | Andras Cser, Bill Nagel

  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 The Forrester Wave™: Identity And Access Management, Q4 2009

  Oracle, CA, And IBM Lead, With Novell And Sun Microsystems Close Behind

  November 3, 2009 | Andras Cser

  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...

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  Report EA: Incorporate Enterprise Role Management Into Your Architecture Strategy

  July 15, 2009 | Henry Peyret

  Adoption of enterprise role management tools is increasing dramatically as a result of compliance and cost pressures. Enterprise role management tools simplify the provisioning and deprovisioning...

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  Report IT Security's Critical Role During Layoffs

  How To Safeguard Company Data In Difficult Times

  July 2, 2009 | Andrew Jaquith

  The Gateway Recession of 2009 has brought the prospect of slowing sales and profits — and job losses. Although layoffs are never desirable, they are often necessary. Much of the...

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  Report Market Overview: Enterprise Role Management

  Access Recertification And Role Management Converge, Integrate With Provisioning

  February 6, 2009 | Andras Cser

  Enterprise role management, role mining, and access recertification help enterprises with maintaining segregation of duties, keeping up with regulatory compliance requirements, and automating...

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  Report Inquiry Spotlight: Identity And Access Management, Q4 2008

  October 6, 2008 | Andras Cser

  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...

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  Report Best Practices: Enterprise Role Management

  September 30, 2008 | Andras Cser

  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...

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  Report Privileged User Management Market Overview

  Centrally Managing System Administrator And Application Credentials

  June 30, 2008 | Andras Cser

  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

  June 18, 2008 | Andras Cser

  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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  Report Topic Overview: Identity And Access Management

  April 14, 2008 | Andras Cser

  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...

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  Report User Account Provisioning For The Midmarket

  Why Projects Fail And How To Achieve Success

  August 20, 2007 | Andras Cser

  Smaller enterprises (those with 1,000 to 5,000 employees) are an underserved market when it comes to user account provisioning. They are large enough to benefit from the efficiencies and controls...

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  Report The Forrester Wave™: User Account Provisioning, Q1 2006

  Sun Microsystems Leads In Our Product Evaluation

  January 30, 2006 | Jonathan Penn

  Forrester evaluated leading user account provisioning vendors across 125 criteria and found that Sun Microsystems is a market leader for a reason — its product delivers superior provisioning...