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The SolarWinds incident made the news in December 2020 and continues to impact many organizations. John Tolbert joins Matthias to give a short introduction of what decision makers need to know at this stage and which measures to look at first.

John Tolbert joins Matthias and shares insights about the results from the just recently published Leadership Compass CIAM. They talk about the overall maturing of the market and the areas of innovation in products, standards and integration scenarios.

Annie joins Matthias to talk about the topic of Verified Digital Identity. They explore what these are, why they are becoming increasingly important and where they add new aspects to the concept of digital identity. A special focus is put on existing and emerging use cases, where verified digital identities can be beneficial to all types of real life entities in their day by day interaction.

This podcast has already looked at the Zero Trust concept as a challenging architectural paradigm for security and an important component of modern and future-oriented security architectures from various angles. This time Christopher and Matthias focus on a phased project approach towards implementing Zero Trust in a well-paced, phased, "one-bite-at-a-time" manner.

The Zero Trust concept comes with the promise to adequately secure our modern, hybrid IT world at any time and any place. Manufacturers, consultants and even analysts agree as rarely as they do that this changed architectural paradigm is an important component of modern and future-oriented security architectures. Alexei and Matthias address the question why in practice only a few powerful zero trust architectures deliver on this promise. They try to answer the question what organizations need to consider in order to get off to a good start.

The PAM market continues to evolve and many organizations are adopting the DevOps paradigm where critical access and sensitive accounts are required in fast moving and agile environments. Paul Fisher meets Matthias for this episode and shares his research on PAM for DevOps. They talk about the challenges of this area of application, but also about the differences and similarities with "classic" PAM. And about the opportunities on a path towards a hybrid approach to PAM in today's organizations, in the midst of the Digital Transformation.

In this second of two episodes, Annie Bailey and Matthias Reinwarth look at use cases of emerging technologies in healthcare. The use of AI, and machine learning to facilitate self-diagnosis chatbots is just one of many fascinating areas of application that are discussed and analyzed.

John Tolbert has just taken a close look at the market for SOAR tools (Security Orchestration, Automation and Response) to prepare a Leadership Compass. This has just been published and this gives John and Matthias the opportunity to take a closer look at this market segment of security infrastructures.

In this first of two episodes, Annie Bailey and Matthias Reinwarth lay the foundations for the topic "Emerging Technologies in Healthcare". Beyond hype and half-knowledge, they look at the use of AI, machine learning, block chain, and modern digital identities for the comprehensive improvement of processes and systems in healthcare.

This analyst chat episode is the 50th and therefore a bit different. This time Matthias talks to two experienced analysts, Martin Kuppinger and Alexei Balaganski, about the ECSM, the European Cyber Security Month, which is to provide information and awareness on cyber security in October 2020. The particular aim they pursue is to go beyond awareness to arrive at specific measures that can benefit individuals and organizations alike.

When asked to describe IAM processes, managers tend to think first of traditional lifecycle management processes such as Joiner, Mover and Leaver (JML). While these are clearly essential for identity governance in interplay with authoritative sources, a comprehensive process framework for IAM and beyond encompasses many other areas. Martin Kuppinger and Matthias Reinwarth explore some of these additional areas between convenience and compliance.

Dynamic, risk-based, attribute- and context-related authorizations are becoming increasingly important for many enterprises. Graham Williamson and Matthias Reinwarth take a look at the market sector for dynamic authorization management and policy-based permissions in light of the recent publication of a Market Compass on this topic.

Access management and access governance in many companies are still largely based on traditional authorization concepts. Thus defining and thinking access management is often rooted in a rather one-dimensional paradigm. Martin and Matthias talk about access policies as a common language for defining and maintaining rules for access, independent of the actual implementation of access control.

Warwick Ashford and Matthias Reinwarth talk about business resilience again, focusing on cyber supply chain risk management.

Alexei Balaganski and Matthias Reinwarth look at the citizen development movement and discuss the potential risks of letting business users create their applications without proper governance and security.

Warwick Ashford and Matthias Reinwarth discuss the prerequisites and challenges of making a business able to adapt quickly to risks and disruptions.  

Anne Bailey and Matthias Reinwarth discuss the findings of the recently published Leadership Compass on Privacy and Consent Management.

Alexei Balaganski and Matthias Reinwarth discuss the concept of ephemeral credentials and its benefits for privilege management, DevOps and beyond.

John Tolbert and Matthias Reinwarth look at SP 800-207, the NIST special publication on Zero Trust architecture and discuss how it aligns with KuppingerCole's own vision of this topic (spoiler: it does align very well!)

Alexei Balaganski and Matthias Reinwarth try to make sense of the current state of quantum computing and talk about the risks it poses for information security.

John Tolbert and Matthias Reinwarth discuss benefits and limitations of agentless security solutions.

Christopher Schütze and Matthias Reinwarth discuss Enterprise Risk Management. What is it all about? What large and small companies should be focusing on? What role do IT and cybersecurity play here?

Anne Bailey and Matthias Reinwarth discuss how decentralized identities and verifiable credentials help respond to the pandemic by powering contact tracing applications, immunity passports and other important use cases.

Alexei Balaganski and Matthias Reinwarth discuss the security challenges for enterprises moving to the cloud and explain why security in the cloud is still your responsibility.

Anne Bailey and Matthias Reinwarth talk about the technologies that enable employees working remotely or from home access sensible corporate information from personal devices without compromises between productivity and security.

Matthias Reinwarth and Martin Kuppinger discuss the challenges of integrating IT service management with identity governance within an enterprise.

Matthias Reinwarth and Jonh Tolbert discuss the ongoing consolidation of the cybersecurity market and talk about its reasons and potential consequences.

Matthias Reinwarth and Martin Kuppinger talk about governance and security of data across a variety of sources and formats and the need for maintaining data lineage across its complete life cycle.

Christopher Schuetze and Matthias Reinwarth discuss a security architecture blueprint that implements the concept of Security Fabric.

Graham Williamson and Matthias Reinwarth talk about consent: what does it mean for identity professionals, service providers or lawyers and how to reconcile all those different views in modern IAM environments.

Warwick Ashford and Matthias Reinwarth discuss the standards, technologies and organizational changes needed to finally get rid of the password-based authentication once and for all.

Christopher Schuetze and Matthias Reinwarth introduce Security Fabric - a new architectural approach towards cybersecurity with the goal to achieve consistent and fully managed security across the whole corporate IT.

John Tolbert and Matthias Reinwarth talk about network detection and response solutions: what are the threats they are looking for and how they complement endpoint protection tools to ensure consistent protection against advanced attacks.

Paul Fisher and Matthias Reinwarth continue talking about privileged access management, discussing the core capabilities of modern PAM solutions.

Matthias Reinwarth and Alexei Balaganski talk about the reasons many companies are still failing to protect themselves from cyberattacks and data breaches even after spending so much on security tools.

In a follow-up to an earlier episode, Matthias Reinwarth and Anne Bailey discuss practical approaches and recommendations for applying AI governance in your organization.

Matthias Reinwarth and John Tolbert talk about profound implications of security products not having their administrative interfaces sufficiently secured with technologies like multi-factor authentication.

Matthias Reinwarth and Anne Bailey talk about Artificial Intelligence and various issues and challenges of its governance and regulation.

Matthias Reinwarth and Christopher Schütze talk about the importance of processes to make your IAM projects successful.

Matthias Reinwarth and Paul Fisher launch a new series of talks about privileged access management.

Matthias Reinwarth and John Tolbert discuss the latest "innovations" fraudsters are using during the pandemic crisis and the methods to mitigate them.

Matthias Reinwarth and Alexei Balaganski look at the potential alternatives to VPNs and security gateways.

Matthias Reinwarth and Martin Kuppinger explain how to protect your users from phishing attacks when they're all working from home...

Matthias Reinwarth explains how to let machine learning add value to your organization.

Matthias Reinwarth and Alexei Balaganski talk about making the right choice of a database engine to power your next cloud project.

Matthias Reinwarth and Martin Kuppinger dispel a few myths about Zero Trust.

Matthias Reinwarth and Alexei Balaganski discuss the plethora of acronyms for security analytics solutions: from SOC and SIEM to UEBA and SOAR.

Matthias Reinwarth and Christopher Schütze talk about how to efficiently identify and rate your investments into Cybersecurity.

Beyond security and technology: Matthias Reinwarth leverages the experiences of KuppingerCole Analysts in doing advisory via electronic collaboration platforms and shares 5+1 golden rules for jumpstarting efficient cooperation.

IAM is no green field approach, but needs to evolve over time. Matthias Reinwarth explains how the Identity Fabrics paradigm can be deployed to move towards a more modern and capable IAM architecture while increasing efficiency.

Christopher Schütze and Matthias Reinwarth explain the importance of having an incident response plan.

Matthias Reinwarth and Martin Kuppinger discuss the measures necessary for securing your favorite online communication platform.

Matthias Reinwarth and Graham Williamson are talking about managing IAM projects properly.

Matthias Reinwarth and Alexei Balaganski discuss the challenges of explosive API growth without proper security controls in place.

Martin Kuppinger explains the benefits of Identity and Access Management delivered from the cloud.

Matthias Reinwarth and Graham Williamson are talking about designing an IAM project architecture.

Kuppingercole's Principal Analyst Martin Kuppinger gives his opinion on problems and arguments surrounding various apps for tracking the spread of the virus. And privacy is not the biggest challenge here...

Matthias Reinwarth and John Tolbert explain the meaning behind the term and talk about various factors that help identify fraudulent transactions in different industries.

Martin Kuppinger explains the meaning behind the popular buzzword.

Matthias Reinwarth and Martin Kuppinger identify the key topics for cybersecurity in the times of crisis.

Matthias Reinwarth and Christopher Schütze are taking a look at five different phases of cyber security.

Martin Kuppinger explains adaptive authentication.

Matthias Reinwarth and Martin Kuppinger explain what you could be doing wrong with regards to cybersecurity priorities.

Matthias Reinwarth and Alexei Balaganski discuss the history of ransomware and the measures needed to protect yourself against it.

Martin Kuppinger explains the reasons why so many Identity and Access Management projects can stall or even fail.

Matthias Reinwarth and Martin Kuppinger are discussing the security challenges enterprises are now facing with the majority of employees working from home.

Martin Kuppinger explains the reasons why so many Identity and Access Management projects can stall or even fail.

Matthias Reinwarth and John Tolbert are talking about the challenges of data protection in modern times.

John Tolbert is talking about the current situation with regards the pandemic crisis and the cybersecurity-related things to consider for enterprises.

Welcome to the pilot issue of the KuppingerCole Analyst Chat - our soon-to-be-regular podcast. Stay tuned for more episodes!

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