IAM – Identity And Access Management
Are they who they say they are? Digital has made identity & access management (IAM) crucial and complicated. Read our insights.
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CrowdStrike Acquires SaaS Security Specialist Adaptive Shield
Cybersecurity platform provider CrowdStrike announced plans to acquire Adaptive Shield, a SaaS security posture management (SSPM) vendor. Some sources reported the purchase price to be around $300 million. If that purchase price is accurate, based on Forrester’s estimates of Adaptive Shield’s current revenue, that price represents an approximately 12–15x revenue multiplier and 6 times more […]
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IATA’s Distributed Digital Identity Framework Serves A Compelling Business Need
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) — the trade association for world airlines, representing over 330 airlines and over 80% of global air traffic — announced a new framework and plans for using decentralized digital identity (DDID) to provide end-to-end travel experiences for domestic and international passengers.
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Decentralized Digital Identity: The Global Acceptance Network Gains Momentum
Bhutan became the first country to join the Global Acceptance Network (GAN), a foundation that aims to operate a nonprofit decentralized digital identity (DDID) network. Learn more about the use cases for GAN and how it can become successful in this post.
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Visa Risk And Identity Solutions Acquires Fraud Management Vendor Featurespace
Last week, Visa announced the acquisition of Featurespace, a UK-based enterprise fraud management and anti-money-laundering (AML) vendor.
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How Close Are We To Killing Passwords?
Are passwords obsolete or still a necessary evil? In this episode, Vice President and Principal Analyst Andras Cser and Principal Analyst Geoff Cairns describe where we are on the path to passwordless authentication for both enterprise and consumer users.
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Recapping This Year’s InCyber Forum
AI and European cybersecurity regulations were among the hottest topics at the recent InCyber Forum in Lille, France. Get more detail on the key trends in this event review.
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Travel And Mobile Are Driving Decentralized Digital Identity (DDID) Growth
Recently, SITA, the multinational IT company supporting the air travel industry, announced that it would be the lead investor in the Series A funding for Indicio, a decentralized digital identity (DDID) solution provider. Find out what this means for the evolution of DDID.
Join Us Live: Key 2025 Tech & Security Predictions
Get ahead with insights from Forrester analysts. Join us on Jan. 30 for a webinar on our 2025 predictions covering the future of technology and security, from rising cyberthreats to the impact of AI and automation.
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Workforce Identity Platforms, Q1 2024
Last Wednesday, we released The Forrester Wave™: Workforce Identity Platforms, Q1 2024. We looked at the top 12 vendors in the market and evaluated them across 24 criteria. Workforce identity platforms energize a centripetal (inward) force necessary to combat the centrifugal (outward) forces that challenge identity and access management (IAM) deployments in organizations today. These […]
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Data Governance: Your Key To Unlocking An Insights-Driven Business
The key to turning data into meaningful and actionable insights across the organization lies in a frequently overlooked area — establishing a strong foundation of data governance.
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Navigate The Identity And Access Management Landscape In China
The identity and access management (IAM) market in China is still emerging but its importance and priority have grown significantly. Learn how in this blog post.
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My Key Takeaways From This Year’s Singapore FinTech Festival
In Singapore, the ease of global networking is impressive. At the recent Singapore FinTech Festival, a significant event in APAC attracting around 66,000 attendees, I had the valuable chance to connect with clients and friends worldwide. The event offered both enriching conversations and intriguing fintech product demonstrations. Here are some key takeaways from the event: […]
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Supercharge Your Defense: Level Up AI-Powered Models To Combat Fraud In APAC
As authorized push payment fraud rises, learn three things your enterprise fraud management vendor should have to better leverage AI to combat fraud.
2025 Tech Predictions: Your Must-Have Guide
From AI’s impact to cloud evolution and smarter workflows for the SDLC and AIOps, 2025 is set to be a big year for tech. Download our Predictions guide to see if you’re on track to make the most of these changes.
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The Web Needs A Way Of Proving That You’re A Real Person — Worldcoin Is Not The Solution
New crypto-focused financial network Worldcoin promises to provide a “new identity and financial network owned by everyone.” But it raises more issues than it solves. Find out why.
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Don’t Ignore Your Employee Offboarding Processes
How offboarding is handled not only impacts your organization directly — it can also have a lasting effect on how others perceive your organization. Our two latest reports can help leaders mitigate the risks.
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Meet The New Analyst Covering IAM: Geoff Cairns
What Topics Will You Be Covering At Forrester? I am very excited to be covering identity and access management (IAM), with a focus on the workforce environment (business to employee). I will also collaborate with Forrester’s other IAM analyst, Andras Cser. Some areas and topics that I hope to explore include: How to optimize workforce […]
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The State Of Decentralized Digital Identities
Learn the value of decentralized digital identities in this preview of Forrester’s Security & Risk event, November 8–9.
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SailPoint To Be Acquired By Private Equity Firm Thoma Bravo For $6.9 Billion
On Monday, April 11, 2022, identity management and governance (IMG) vendor SailPoint announced that it was being bought by private equity (PE) firm Thoma Bravo for $6.9 billion. This is not the first rodeo for Thoma Bravo with SailPoint; in 2014, the PE firm bought out SailPoint’s original venture capital investors and remained an owner […]
Plan Your IT & Security Budgets For 2025 Success
Watch our on-demand technology budget planning webinar. Get benchmarks for strategic investments, divestments, and experiments to maximize business value from 2025 tech and security spending.
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Okta Lapsus$ Compromise: How To Make Sure You’re Protected
On Tuesday, March 22, 2022, identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) provider Okta announced that it had detected an attempt to compromise the account of a partner in January 2022. The announcement came after the hacking group Lapsus$ posted screenshots of a computer used by one of Okta’s third-party customer support engineers. As one of the largest IDaaS providers with […]
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Evolve Your IAM Strategy For Today’s Digital Employee And Customer
Identity and access management (IAM) is the control plane for determining a root of trust for all digital identities. Effective IAM must validate identities, secure access, manage privileges, and be optimized for hardened security, good user experience, and operational efficiency across all user populations — your workforce, partners, customers, and machine identities. Effective and efficient […]
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SentinelOne Secures Identity First, Deception Second, In Attivo Acquisition
Endpoint security and extended detection and response (XDR) vendor SentinelOne today announced the acquisition of Attivo Networks for just over $600 million. Attivo was a darling of deception technology, but SentinelOne was really after its Active Directory protection portfolio, including ADAssessor and ADSecure. Enterprise identity plays a critical role in the Zero Trust world mandated […]
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