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Passwords have been beyond their "sell-by" date for over twenty years and managing the password lifecycle within an organisation comes at a large cost to any enterprise; passwords...

Due to the quickly changing landscape of IT environments, including hybrid IT infrastructure, the complexity of compliance requirements, siloed identity management, and the need to...

IAM software and tools have traditionally been installed and run on-premises by the organization itself. In recent years, the growth in identities operating across cloud and digita...

The Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) market is continuing to evolve through more integrated Identity Lifecycle Management and Access Governance solutions that are now i...

NEXIS 4 implements intelligent role and identity analytics together with strategic entitlement lifecycle management processes. As such, it provides the basis for dedicated, busines...

It is no longer enough to create and secure user identities. Verifying that the identity does indeed describe the individual it was created for is a valuable capability in many use...

Strivacity Fusion is a multi-instance SaaS-based Consumer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) solution. Strivacity Fusion was built in the cloud using the modern micro-services a...

Consumer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) continues to be a growing market, offering a better user experience for the consumer and new challenges for the organization. NRI Sec...

Accenture Memority is an IDaaS solution supporting both Identity Lifecycle Management and Access Management use cases. It comes with full API support and positions itself as the fo...

Transition to a fully distributed and agile digital enterprise is increasingly seen as a matter of organizational survival. The COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed any lingering doubt ab...

Business is changing fundamentally. Digital Services are the new normal, both as autonomous business models and accompanying physical goods. The connected vehicle and the changes i...

Synacor offers Cloud ID as a highly capable and scalable Consumer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) solution for the consumer services and media streaming market. Their platfor...

WALLIX Bastion is a PAM solution that offers the fundamentals of session management, password management and access management as well as more advanced features such as PEDM and pr...

Most organizations see the value of identity governance and administration (IGA). However, they recognize that it has its challenges in practice, with certain tasks being complex a...

Privileged Access Management (PAM) is an important area of access risk management and identity security in any organization. Privileged accounts have traditionally been given to ad...

HID Global offers robust and highly secure solutions for identity and access management, including physical access controls, smart identity card manufacturing and credential issuan...

Die meisten Organisationen sehen den Vorteil von Identity Governance und Administration (IGA), erkennen jedoch, dass es in der Praxis Herausforderungen hat, denn bestimmte Aufgaben...

Privileged Access Management (PAM), of which Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) is a part, is an essential component in protecting organizations against cyber-attacks, ransomware,...

This Leadership Compass provides insights to the leaders in innovation, product features, and market reach for Access Management on-premises, cloud, and hybrid platforms. Your comp...

The KuppingerCole Market Compass provides an overview of the product or service offerings in a certain market segment. This Market Compass covers the market of IGA (Identity Govern...

DirX Audit is the Access Intelligence and Analytics solution within the Atos DirX portfolio. It provides insight not only in risks related to static entitlements, but also can anal...

Simeio Identity Orchestrator (IO) is a solution that helps integrate and orchestrate other IAM solutions, while also adding a series of own capabilities. Utilizing Simeio IO, custo...

Today’s GRC solutions offer better alignment with corporate objectives, increased transparency, superior information risk management and more cost-effective compliance. This paper...

PingFederate is among the leading-edge solutions that support identity federation standards. PingFederate can enable Single Sign-On (SSO) between business units, enterprises, and...

This report provides an overview of the market for Consumer Identity and Access Management and provides you with a compass to help you to find the Consumer Identity and Access Mana...

In today's data-centric world, it has become paramount to protect sensitive data and help organizations face mounting regulatory requirements, challenges, and compliance risks. Big...

Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) is not only for large enterprises but organizations of all sizes to reduce the risk of user access to applications, systems, and data and...

Inevitably, every organization with digital security and governance requirements will go through iterations of IAM and IGA system modernization efforts. Persistent Systems' Unity p...

Access Management capabilities are well-established in the broader scope of IAM and are continuing to gain attraction due to emerging requirements for integrating business partners...

Managing third party identities has become an important issue for companies when they open their infrastructures to non-employees from partners and vendors. The influx of third-par...

This report provides an overview of the market for Privacy and Consent Management platforms and provides you with a compass to help you to find the solution that best meets your ne...

One Identity Active Roles is a powerful tool for integrated management of both on-premises Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Azure Active Directory. It comes with strong sup...

The versatility of modern IT Service Management systems (ITSM) is leading many organizations to configure these systems to deal with all employee service requests, including those...

Building a trust-filled and transparent relationship with end-users depends now more than ever on Privacy and Consent Management solutions. These services accomplish many tasks suc...

The Cygna Auditor Platform is a unified environment for collecting events from Active Directory, Azure AD, Windows Servers, Microsoft 365, and some other platforms, and providing a...

Clear Skye IGA differs from common IGA implementations by running on the ServiceNow NOW platform and providing full integration into ServiceNow capabilities. It thus bridges the ga...

Auth0 provides a flexible platform that can be used for Consumer Identity and Access Management (CIAM), Business-to-Employee (B2E), and Business-to-Business (B2B) use cases. Auth0’...

In the absence of a secure external perimeter Identity and Access Management has become fundamental to protecting corporate digital assets. Identity Governance and Administration...

Hitachi ID is a global IAM software provider. It offers Hitachi ID Privileged Access Manager (HiPAM) as its primary offering for the PAM market, along with the complementary Identi...

Modern Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solutions need to take traditional IGA further to meet today's customer requirements such as entitlement and onboarding automati...

From small businesses to large enterprises, organizations today require a solid foundation for their Identity and Access Management (IAM) services. These services are increasingly...

IAM is a complex challenge for businesses, comprising of various capabilities such as IGA (Identity Governance & Administration), Access Management, and Privileged Access Managemen...

Identity and Access Management (IAM) has never been more important or challenging in the face of a rapidly changing business, regulatory and IT environment. This is especially true...

The Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) market is continuing to evolve through more integrated Identity Provisioning and Access Governance solutions that are now increasin...

With more and more organizations following a “cloud first” strategy, IT infrastructure and security services also must shift to the cloud, where increasingly more of the critical w...

Moving to the cloud sets new challenges for managing access to critical IT environments for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs). These include managing access to multi-cloud se...

Enterprise IAM suites today need to meet an ever-growing list of IT requirements, which includes process automation, self-service, and identity-related administration and governanc...

As digital transformation gains momentum, new types of digital identity are emerging and growing rapidly. Identity management has traditionally focused on human identities, but non...

As access management and governance becomes more important for security and compliance reasons, businesses are looking for a single solution to manage both on-prem and cloud access...

As the number and types of digital identities proliferate in the digital era and the number of data protection regulations around the world continues to grow, the need for an effec...

iWelcome provides a mature Identity-as-a-Service platform with extensive support for B2C (Customer Identity & Access Management – CIAM) and B2B use cases with interfaces for end-us...

Atos DirX Identity is a mature offering for IGA (Identity Governance and Administration), delivering both leading-edge Identity Provisioning capabilities and a strong risk-based Ac...

Decentralized identity solutions that meet a range of enterprise use cases are on the market. Being a discerning consumer means knowing the right questions to ask. This Leadership...

Digital identities are at the core of Digital Transformation, Information Security and Privacy. It has never been more important for enterprises to ensure they have the capability...

The KuppingerCole Market Compass provides an overview of product or service offerings in a certain market segment. This Market Compass covers decentralized identity, specifically...

Identity as a Service (IDaaS) is fast becoming the new face of Identity and Access Management (IAM) with several vendors now delivering cloud based IAM services to support the grow...

Traditional Enterprise Identity Management systems increasingly need to be reconsidered with regard to their operating expenses, but also their capabilities for modern digital serv...

PlainID Policy Manager aims to be the single source of truth for all entitlements, coarse- or fine-grained in your enterprise, controlling secure access across all identities, syst...

Callsign is a provider of an identity platform that integrates consumer onboarding, authentication, and fraud management in a well-thought-out manner. In contrast to other solution...

From January 1st, 2020, when the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) came into force, the requirements for managing personal data have changed. This report identifies six key a...

Onegini provides a compelling no-code cloud-delivered solution for Consumer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) and B2B IAM. Onegini is headquartered in the Netherlands, is expan...

The Healthcare sector faces the common challenges of all businesses today: digital transformation, cyber-security, and increasingly stringent regulations. But Healthcare also has u...

As the market, technology, and regulation forces change, Oracle offers a comprehensive Identity Governance solution that can meet the ever evolving enterprise needs. Oracle Identit...

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is one of the trending topics in today’s IT environments. RPA promises to automate manual tasks within business processes by implementing (software...

Informatica Data Privacy Management is an AI-enhanced unified data security platform for identifying, analyzing, quantifying and mitigating risk related to sensitive data to enable...

Expectations are changing for Identity and Access Management. Users demand control over their personal information, and enterprises need to fundamentally rethink their relationship...

Using artificial intelligence services in combination can offer heightened results, whether it be in accuracy, robustness, customization, or geographical spread. Distributed, decen...

CCPA is the latest in a series of global privacy regulations. It comes with new requirements for dealing with personal data and is accompanied by severe penalties. Thus, businesses...

Digital identities are at the core of Digital Transformation, Information Security and Privacy, and therefore it has never been more important for enterprises to ensure they have t...

Digital Identities are at the heart of the Digital Transformation. Without the ability to unify identities and manage the access of everyone to everything to every digital service...

Digital Transformation is ubiquitous. Creating new digital business services changes the way IAM needs to be done. Instead of managing existing applications, IAM has to provide ide...

Decentralized identity solutions - sometimes referred to as blockchain ID - are developing into a viable segment in IAM. Because the market segment is still very heterogeneous and...

Identity Automation’s RapidIdentity is an Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution that targets the specific requirements of healthcare organizations. Beyond delivering standa...

The IBM Decentralized Identity platform is both an enterprise solution for individual companies and the foundation of a global decentralized identity ecosystem. IBM’s decentralized...

An emerging market, IDaaS IGA is largely characterized by cloud-based delivery of Identity Provisioning and Access Governance capabilities for business irrespective of the applicat...

ForgeRock Access Management is a full-featured Identity and Access Management (IAM) system, and a primary component in their Identity Platform. It provides numerous authentication...

IAM has been one of the central security infrastructures for many years. The changing role and importance of digital identities lead to fundamental changes in IAM architectures. Th...

With Business-to-Business (B2B) transformation comes digital initiatives to better connect B2B customer systems and supply chain services, and in doing so, Identity and Access Mana...

From small businesses to large enterprises, organizations today require a solid foundation for their Identity and Access Management (IAM) services. These services are increasingly...

Privileged Access Management (PAM) is fast becoming one of the most important areas of Identity and Access Management (IAM). Privileged accounts are given to admins and other users...

Devolutions provides a PAM solution targeted at SMB customers that provides a good baseline set of PAM capabilities and easy to deploy and operate. The solution comes with a passwo...

This report provides an overview of the market for Consumer Authentication products and services and provides you with a compass to help you to find the Consumer Authentication pro...

Identity & Access Governance is a must for every business. Unfortunately, the way it is commonly done today is inefficient and cumbersome. It is latest time to review the approache...

Identity & Access Governance ist ein Muss für jedes Unternehmen. Leider ist die Art und Weise, wie es heute gehandhabt wird, ineffizient und schwerfällig. Es ist an der Zeit, die A...

A technology-oriented approach to identity and access management (IAM) is becoming less important as identities become more diverse and access requirements grow. As a result, CISOs...

IT paradigms are under change. Containerized solutions, building on Microservice Architectures and exposing well-defined sets of APIs, are rapidly becoming the new normal. Such arc...

A solution for managing secure access to online services, protected assets and sensitive data. Strong authentication, a broad spectrum of access management methods, sustainable mai...

Digital technologies are now influencing and changing all areas within organizations. This is fundamentally reshaping the way communication takes place, how people work together an...

IDaaS IAM is a fast growing market, characterized by cloud-based delivery of access management capabilities for business irrespective of the application and service delivery models...

Identity API Platforms expose APIs to capabilities ranging from IAM to Federation and more while supporting both the agile and DevOps paradigms that address the more complex IT env...

Service Layers delivers a comprehensive managed IAM solution, based on best-of-breed IAM products. The solution is well-architected, following modern concepts including DevOps, con...

A fast-growing market, IDaaS AM is largely characterized by cloud-based delivery of access management capabilities for business irrespective of the application and service delivery...

TrustBuilder Identity Hub is the Identity and Acess Management (IAM) platform from TrustBuilder that enables a context-aware and policy-driven approach to deliver a secure and seam...

Registration and authentication are the first things that happen when someone becomes a user of digital business services. If these steps don’t work as the user wants, the acceptan...

Healthcare organizations deal with highly sensitive information. They face challenges in complying with ever-tightening regulations, combating ever-increasing cyber risks, and adap...

Digital transformation and the need for business agility are creating an explosion in the volume, variety and velocity of identity data that enterprises have to manage efficiently....

Osirium Opus is a specialized solution that focuses on IT Process Automation for privileged tasks. It works standalone or in combination with other ITSM solutions such as Service N...

As the hype around Blockchain is slowing down, the market is moving into a phase of maturity, focusing on business cases where Blockchain technology delivers concrete value, in com...

With IT functions gradually shifting to the cloud, it is time to rethink the way supporting infrastructure and platform services such as IGA (Identity Governance and Administratio...

Consumer Identity is a fast-growing specialty solution. This KuppingerCole Buyer’s Compass will provide you with questions to ask vendors, criteria to select your vendor, and requi...

One Identity Manager in combination with the cloud-based Starling Connect service delivers a broad range of integrations into both traditional and cloud-based SAP services. The int...

Kleverware ist ein französisches Softwareunternehmen, das sich auf die Entwicklung einer schlanken Lösung für Identity & Access Governance (IAG) fokussiert hat. Kleverware IAG ermö...

Ubisecure Identity Platform is an integrated consumer identity and access management suite for on-premise or cloud deployment. Ubisecure features strong federation capabilities, in...

ManageEngine AD360 is a tool targeted at the in-depth management of Microsoft Active Directory and connected systems such as Microsoft Office 365. It comes with capabilities that g...

Consumer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) is a rapidly growing market that offers a better user experience for the consumer and new challenges for the organization. NRI Secure...

Simeio offers a turnkey Identity and Access Management IDaaS solution for small-to-medium size businesses. IAM for SMB prioritizes ease-of-use for business owners and administrator...

Identity Management solutions need to address the growing number of identities associated with applications and endpoints, as well as the ability to integrate with the diversity of...

Privileged Access Management (PAM), over the last few years, has evolved into a set of crucial technologies that addresses some of the most urgent areas of Cybersecurity today. Con...

Securing and monitoring privileged access to cloud environments is a crucial security requirement, more so because privileged accounts are powerful, shared in nature and generally...

Kleverware is a French software company that is focused on delivering a lean, targeted solution for Identity & Access Governance (IAG). Their solution Kleverware IAG allows for rap...

IDaaS is fast becoming the new face of Identity and Access Management (IAM) with several vendors now delivering cloud-based IAM services to support the whopping cloud uptake by the...

This Leadership Compass provides insights to the leaders in innovation, product features, and market reach for Web Access Management and Identity Federation on-premises platforms....

SAP Customer Data Cloud provides a complete solution for Consumer Identity and Access Management. Entirely cloud-based, SAP Customer Data Cloud delivers advanced customer identit...

Securely authenticating users remains a difficult problem. VeriClouds offers an Identity Threat Protection Platform that can provide a useful additional level of assurance against...

Identity Verification is the first step in the journey of the digital customer. From there, Authentication is the first thing to do when returning. Balancing security & convenience...

Any Self-Sovereign Identity platform must strike a balance between the individual and the organization that uses it. The Sphere Identity platform provides not only primary support...

Organizations need a detailed yet carefully guided and defensible approach to evaluate Identity and Access Management Services (IDaaS). This document provides the required guidance...

AWS is the largest global provider of Cloud infrastructure with extensive capabilities to suit a wide range of customer requirements for cloud-based services. The AWS platform now...

Die FSP Identity Governance & Administration Suite ORG ist eine Lösung zur Verwaltung des Identitäts- und Zugriffslebenszyklus und bedient somit den Markt für Identity Provisioning...

Backed by closer integration of Identity Provisioning and Access Governance capabilities, the IGA market continues to evolve and enters mainstream market adoption with most vendors...

With the continually evolving security requirements and challenges IT faces today, the capabilities of IAM must also advance to keep up. Evidian meets these modern IAM requirements...

CA Technologies offers comprehensive Privileged Access Management (PAM) under CA Privileged Access Management Suite comprising of several modules bundled in a single product. The C...

ViewDS Cobalt is a cloud-architected identity platform flexible enough to support on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. With all aspects of the platform management fully acc...

WidasConcepts offers a complete consumer identity and access management solution: cidaas. cidaas is developed and hosted in Germany. cidaas contains most standard and many innova...

Active Directory provides critical identify infrastructure for the enterprise. Semperis offers Active Directory change monitoring and forest recovery products. The Semperis DS-Prot...

1Kosmos BlockID is one of the first commercial implementations of a blockchain-based identity solution that works for both consumers and employees. It is well-thought-out and imple...

Cyber criminals regularly exploit vulnerabilities and poor practices around Microsoft Active Directory to obtain credentials that allow them to infiltrate organizational systems, c...

Often, enterprise security is delivered as separate services such as Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS), Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) and Privileged Access Management (PAM). Cen...

One Identity is one of the leading vendors in the field of IAM. With their recent acquisition of Balabit and the integration of their Privilege Management offerings into the Safegu...

RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle is a complete solution for managing digital identities and their access, both inside and outside the enterprise. The RSA solution covers all a...

Leaders in innovation, product features, and market reach for access governance & intelligence. Delivering the capabilities for managing access entitlements, always knowing the sta...

Cayosoft Administrator is an integrated platform for management and automation of Active Directory and Office 365 environments, including hybrid deployments. The latest release add...

The Internet of Things (IoT) has enormous potential to transform and benefit both consumers and industries, but along with it comes significant privacy and security implications. A...

Well-designed IAM/IAG-architectures establish real-time visibility of all accounts of a person, thereby closing a formerly intrinsic security gap. Bridging between established gove...

In today’s modern digital environments, organizations need an IAM solution that can span the breadth of employees, consumers, and citizens. Pirean's Access: One provides a single p...

Radiant Logic’s federation suite evolves the directory to be a “single source of truth” about identity data in even the most complex hybrid enterprise. It provides an important bui...

Most organizations today run in a hybrid IT environment. However, their IAM solutions have repeatedly been built for the traditional on-premises IT. IAM needs to become a service t...

The KuppingerCole Leadership Compass provides an overview of vendors and their product or service offerings in a certain market segment. This Leadership Compass focusses on Infras...

Identity and Access Management (IAM) for employees and partners is a foundational element in all digital environments today. Consumer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) systems...

On October 24, 2017, Imprivata significantly enhanced their healthcare-focused enterprise SSO offering with Identity Provisioning and Access Governance capabilities acquired from C...

Ilantus IDaaS Next is an offering in the emerging market of IDaaS B2E, i.e. IDaaS offerings targeted at enterprise customers that must manage both SaaS services in the cloud and on...

Leaders in innovation, product features, and market reach for Identity Provisioning. Delivering the capabilities for managing accounts and entitlements across heterogeneous IT envi...

BeyondTrust’s PowerBroker product family provides a well-integrated solution with a broad range of capabilities for the mitigation of threats caused by the abuse or misuse of privi...

Atos DirX Identity is a mature offering for IGA (Identity Governance and Administration), delivering both leading-edge Identity Provisioning capabilities and a strong Access Govern...

Die DSGVO oder EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), die ab dem 28. Mai 2018 voll wirksam ist, wird derzeit vor allem mit den Zustimmungsregeln zur Nutzung personenbezogene...

The upcoming EU GDPR will have significant impact on how business can collect PII of their customers and consumers. Business are well-advised to thoroughly review these changes and...

PlainID offers an authorization solution that provides Policy Based Access Control (PBAC) for common on-premise, SaaS, and even homegrown applications. PlainID’s scalable technolo...

IWelcome provides a complete solution for both Identity-as-a-Service and Consumer Identity and Access Management. As an EU-based company, iWelcome strives to help their customers...

Omada Identity Suite is a solution for IGA (Identity Governance and Administration), supporting both Access Governance and Identity Provisioning. It provides, amongst many other fe...

Beta Systems Garancy IAM Suite combines the various modules for Identity and Access Management in the Beta Systems portfolio into one suite. The combined offering delivers a strong...