KuppingerCole Analysts
Episodes
Analyst Chat #162: Trends and Predictions for 2023 - Integration of IGA and Data Governance
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast episode, Martin Kuppinger and Matthias explore the upcoming trend of IGA (Identity Governance and Administration) solutions to have a...
Analyst Chat #161: Managing Network Connectivity and Security with SASE Solutions
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With the rapid expansion of IT environments, adoption of the cloud, and the ongoing Digital Transformation, the need to provide secure access to orga...
Analyst Chat #160: Upgrade Your Security Management Game
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cyberattacks have been intensifying over the past few years as cybercriminals continue to devise new strategies to launch sophisticated attacks and g...
Analyst Chat #159: The 5 Most Common Problems When Choosing a New Tool
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes a company comes to a point where new software or a new tool is required. This is never an easy decision to make quickly. Dr. Phillip Messer...
Analyst Chat #158: The Crown Jewels Are a Lie
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is digital data really every organization's most precious possession, its "crown jewels"? Alexei Balaganski takes a different perspective towards a w...
Analyst Chat #157: How to Refine Data like Oil - Data Quality and Integration Solutions
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Who has not heard of the statement that "Data is the new Oil". But oil needs to be refined and so does data. The challenge of gathering, integrating,...
Analyst Chat #156: CIEM Is Entering the Privileged Access Management Market
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The PAM market is changing and expanding. Paul Fisher talks about the latest trends for Privileged Access Management, the role of CIEM, mergers and n...
Analyst Chat #155: How to Create a Shortlist in 2023
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A new year brings along a new service from KuppingerCole Analysts. Our host Matthias sits down with Christie Pugh, Digital Products Manager to discus...
Continual Access Control, Policies and Zero Trust
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Trust no one, always verify. We know that Zero Trust phrase already. But this principle is rather abstract - how and where exactly should we do that?...
Analyst Chat #154: 2022 Wrapped Up - Major Trends in IAM and Cybersecurity
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Another year gone already! It's time to take a look back at 2022. Martin Kuppinger and Matthias talk about what happened in the past year and id...
Unifying the Perspectives - Application Access Governance
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The application landscape in organizations is getting more and more complex. Applications from vendors are more plentiful - or they differ very much ...
Analyst Chat #153: Passwordless and Biometrics - Balancing UX with Security and Privacy
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alejandro and Matthias continue their conversation about passwordless authentication. This time, the topic is the use of biometrics (and possible sec...
Analyst Chat #152: How to Measure a Market
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Research Analyst Marina Iantorno works on determining market sizing data as a service for vendors, service providers, but especially for investors. S...
Analyst Chat #151: Identity Governance and Administration
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) combines the traditional User Access Provisioning (UAP) and Identity and Access Governance (IAG) markets...
Analyst Chat #150: Clear and Present Danger - Ransomware Threats to Healthcare Providers
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Only a week has passed since John Tolbert, our Cybersecurity Research Director, spoke at CSLS about ransomware and how to combat it. Today, he report...
Analyst Chat #149: The Top 5 Cybersecurity Trends - Looking Back at CSLS 2022
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Deep Fakes, AI as friend and foe, Business Resilience, Mis-, Dis- and Malinformation: The Cybersecurity Leadership Summit has taken place in Berlin a...
Analyst Chat #148: How to Improve Security with Passwordless Authentication
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Passwordless authentication" has become a popular and catchy term recently. It comes with the promise of getting rid of the risk associated with pas...
Analyst Chat #147: How To Manage Your Clients, From Customers and Citizens to B2B and B2B2C
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
CIAM solutions are designed to address specific technical requirements that consumer-facing organizations have that differ from traditional “wo...
Analyst Chat #146: Do You Still Need a VPN?
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are increasingly being promoted as an essential security tool for end users. This is not about the traditional access...
Analyst Chat #145: How Does Using Cloud Services Alter Risk?
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The question whether using a cloud service alters risk is not simple to answer. Mike Small sits down with Matthias and explains, that every organizat...
Analyst Chat #144: What Cybercrime Can Really Mean to Your Business
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cybersecurity often seems like a dry subject. And as long as it is practiced successfully, its benefits can only be seen in the absence of damage. Ho...
Analyst Chat #143: Vulnerability Management: Emergency Patching and How to Deal with "Zero Days"
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes Vulnerability Management has to take care of current threats very quickly: Christopher Schütze is today's guest in this episode and ex...
Analyst Chat #142: Cyber Resilience: What It Is, How to Get There and Where to Start - CSLS Special
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A key issue for many companies beyond technical cybersecurity is cyber resilience. This refers to the ability to protect data and systems in organiza...
Analyst Chat #141: What Defines Modern Cybersecurity Leadership
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you implement modern cybersecurity leadership between compliance, threat protection, privacy and business enablement? To answer this question,...
Analyst Chat #140: Debunking the Myth of the Human Being the Biggest Risk in Cybersecurity
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is always easy to blame people, i.e. users, for data breaches and ransomware attacks. But is that really still true today? Martin Kuppinger and Ma...
Analyst Chat #139: Verified Identity Providers
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Verified identity refers to digital identities that have been verified to describe a real-world identity in digital form. A growing range of service ...
Analyst Chat #138: Jumpstart Your Zero Trust Strategy With Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) Solutions
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Zero Trust is rapidly gaining popularity as a modern alternative to traditional perimeter-based security. While it is (rightfully) mainly considered ...
Analyst Chat #137: What Is CDP and What Benefit Does It Add to Consumer-Centric Identity Ecosystems?
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Customer Data Platforms (CDP) are a fairly new addition to the pool of consumer identity centric management solutions. KuppingerCole Fellow Analyst R...
Analyst Chat #136: Why Securing Microservices Isn’t as Straightforward as You Might Think
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Microservices are increasingly becoming the new normal for enterprise architectures, no matter where they are deployed. Alexei Balaganski and Matthia...
Analyst Chat #135: Can DREAM Help Me Manage My Multi-Hybrid Infrastructure?
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The IT environments have become complex, and this will not stop as more technologies such as Edge Computing start to take hold. Paul Fisher looks at ...
Analyst Chat #134: How Self-Sovereign Identities Will Influence Public Services
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Europe is on a "Path to a Digital Decade", which envisions 80% of EU citizens using a digital ID card by 2030. A part of that journey will be self-so...
Analyst Chat #133: Leadership Compass Web Application Firewalls
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Web Application Firewalls (WAF) have been around for quite some time to protect web applications through the inspection of HTTP traffic. But with a c...
Dark Web Monitoring - CYFIRMA on an Undercover Mission
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With CYFIRMA's products, you can take a look at your business through the eyes of a cybercriminal. But to know what they know, they need to take step...
Analyst Chat #132: Digital Transformation for the Public Sector
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine paying your taxes digitally on your mobile phone by using your digital ID that is also used for easily applying for a parking permit online. ...
How CYFIRMA Puts Threat Intelligence Into Practice
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Do you know what information about your company is out there and can be used by cybercriminals? What are they interested in? Are they actually target...
Analyst Chat #131: How to protect your OT and IoT from Cybersecurity Threats
04 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Graham Williamson has teamed up with John Tolbert to research the current state of the Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (IC...
Analyst Chat #130: Leadership Compass Endpoint Protection, Detection and Response (EPDR)
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The previously distinct but now converged fields and product lines of Endpoint Protection (EPP) and Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) are cover...
Analyst Chat #129: Market Compass Secure Collaboration
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Secure Collaboration solutions focus on enabling data-centric security to facilitate virtual collaboration. Annie Bailey talks with Matthias about th...
Trends, Innovations and Developments in the CIAM Market
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Consumer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) is an emerging market with a strong demand for solutions. Especially with the increasing digitization ...
Analyst Chat #128: Characteristics of Future IT
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Kuppinger and Matthias conclude their conversation about the opening keynote Martin held at EIC 2022 in Berlin. They look at how future IT wil...
Analyst Chat #127: Leadership and Challenges in a Changing World
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Kuppinger and Matthias discuss topics from the opening keynote Martin held at EIC 2022 in Berlin. They start with the role of leaders and deci...
Analyst Chat #126: Leadership Compass Identity Fabrics
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Identity Fabric paradigm manifests an important cornerstone of the KuppingerCole Analysts AG research and advisory. Products in that area cover a...
Analyst Chat #125: Leadership Compass Access Management
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Access Management refers to the group of capabilities targeted at supporting an organization's access management requirements traditionally found wit...
Analyst Chat #124: Market Compass Policy-Based Access Management
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shortly before EIC, Graham Williamson and Matthias sat together virtually and discussed the recent publication of the Market Compass on "Policy Based...
Analyst Chat #123: Market Compass Security Operations Center as a Service
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
SOCaaS (Security Operations Center as a Service) is a growing trend in cybersecurity, where core security functions are uniformly delivered to enterp...
Analyst Chat #122: How to Deal with the Increase and Complexity in Consumer Fraud
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John Tolbert and Matthias discuss the question of whether companies in retail, finance, healthcare, insurance, etc. are really able to keep up with t...
Analyst Chat #121: Increasing the Adoption of MFA and Risk-based Authentication
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A recently published study shows that the use of strong authentication in enterprise environments is at a very low level. John Tolbert explains this ...
Analyst Chat #120: Leadership Compass Container Security
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Securing containers along their lifecycle and wherever they are deployed is a cybersecurity challenge. And it is a new topic for KuppingerCole Analys...
Analyst Chat #119: Composable Enterprises
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Kuppinger gives Matthias one of these rare insights into the process of creating and delivering the next great opening keynote of an event. Wi...
Analyst Chat #118: A first look at the new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On March 25th, 2022 the European Commission and the US government announced a new agreement governing the transfer of data between the EU and the US....
Analyst Chat #117: Practical Zero Trust
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This time Alexei Balaganski and Matthias look at practical approaches to actually implementing Zero Trust for specific, real-life use cases. On this ...
Analyst Chat #116: Putting GAIN to the Test
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
GAIN (the Global Assured Identities Network) is entering a new phase. On March 2, the technical proof-of-concept group was launched to actually test ...
Analyst Chat #115: From Third-Party Cookies to FLoC to Google Topics API
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Online tracking is a highly visible privacy issue that a lot of people care about. Third-party cookies are most notorious for being used in cross-sit...
Analyst Chat #114: Access Control Solutions for SAP Solutions
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Access control tools for application environments, which include SAP in particular, but also a growing number of other business applications, are bec...
Analyst Chat #113: Data Catalogs and Metadata Management
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Data catalogs and metadata management solutions help capture and manage data from all enterprise data sources to enable the use of that data and supp...
Analyst Chat #112: Licensing Strategies for Vendors and Customers
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The conclusion of a tool choice process is usually the consideration of commercial aspects, i.e. software costs and licensing. Martin Kuppinger and M...
Analyst Chat #111: From SIEM to Intelligent SIEM and Beyond
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A comprehensive cybersecurity strategy typically includes the use of modern, intelligent Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms. ...
Analyst Chat #110: Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery Done Right
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The importance of efficient and secure cloud backup and recovery is often underestimated. Mike Small explains these two disciplines to Matthias and l...
Analyst Chat #109: From IT GRC to Integrated Risk Management Platforms
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The three biggest threats to business resilience are IT Risk, Compliance Risk, and Vendor Risk. Integrated Risk Management Platforms address these ri...
Analyst Chat #108: Privacy and Consent Management
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Privacy and Consent Management" is an exciting topic in a continuously changing market. Annie Bailey has just completed her latest Leadership Compas...
Analyst Chat #107: From Log4j to Software Supply Chain Security
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A new year, and 2022, like 2021, again begins with a look back at a far-reaching security incident. Cybersecurity Analyst Alexei Balaganski and Matth...
Analyst Chat #106: 2021 - A Retrospective
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Fisher and Matthias present their very subjective summary of a really special and, in particular, especially challenging past year, 2021. They c...
Analyst Chat #105: A Deeper Dive into GAIN
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The announcement of the GAIN initiative for the secure distribution of verified and assured identity data has been made at EIC in September. While th...
Analyst Chat #104: Edge Computing
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Senior Analyst Graham Williamson joins Matthias from down under to talk about edge computing. Starting from the definition and relevant use cases, th...
Analyst Chat #103: Data-Centric Security
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lead analyst Alexei Balaganski joins Matthias for an episode on Data-Centric Security. Starting with a definition behind that term, they look at rele...
Analyst Chat #102: Impressions and Insights From the CSLS 2021
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From November 9th to 11th, the Cybersecurity Leadership Summit 2021 took place in Berlin and virtually online. The Monday after, Martin Kuppinger and...
Analyst Chat #101: DREAM - Policies and Automation for All of Today's IT
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the past, servers and applications were rather static, and entitlements too were static. But this has changed. Organizations must deal with a mult...
Analyst Chat #100: A Perspective on "Everything as Code"
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
No big celebration, but at least a mention: this is the 100th episode of the KuppingerCole analyst chat. Martin Kuppinger joins Matthias to discuss t...
Analyst Chat #99: Protecting OT and ICS
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John Tolbert sits down with Matthias and shares his insights into current approaches for protecting and defending essential enterprise systems beyond...
Analyst Chat #98: GAIN and Reusable Identities
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Annie Bailey and Matthias take a deeper look at the emerging concept of the Global Assured Identities Network (GAIN) and also seek a broader perspect...
Analyst Chat #97: Low-Code/No-Code and the Citizen Developer
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The idea of low-code/no-code (LC/NC) application development is for end users to create their own custom applications, perhaps using a graphical desi...
Analyst Chat #96: How to Combine Security And Convenience (EIC 2021 Special)
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While moderating and speaking at KuppingerCole's flagship EIC 2021 event in Munich, Matthias also took the opportunity to sit down one-on-one with hi...
Analyst Chat #95: Deconstructing the User Journey (EIC 2021 Special)
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
KuppingerCole's flagship event EIC 2021 took place very successfully in Munich and online in September. Of course, Matthias took the opportunity to s...
Analyst Chat #94: From Ransomware to Globally Assured Identities (EIC 2021 Special)
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
EIC 2021 finally took place in Munich in a hybrid format between on-site and online. Of course, Matthias took the opportunity to sit down with his an...
Analyst Chat #93: Policies and Automation to Secure Your Agile and Dynamic IT Environment
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Kuppinger and Matthias discuss the high-priority topic of how to achieve automation of management and security across the entire multi-hybrid,...
Analyst Chat #92: How the Cybersecurity Market Is Evolving
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cybersecurity is one of the areas where virtually every business will need to invest because of ever-growing cyber risks and ever-tightening regulati...
Analyst Chat #91: Vulnerability Management
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Schütze provides the fundamentals for a pivotal topic in cybersecurity, namely how to create processes and systems for comprehensive...
Analyst Chat #90: API Management and Security
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The market segment of products and services that are designed to manage and secure APIs as essential resources in a multitude of different environmen...
Analyst Chat #89: Next-Generation BI Platforms
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Business Intelligence is the discipline of deriving business insights from raw enterprise data to inform decision making. Although this is a mature m...
Analyst Chat #88: What (and why) is XDR?
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
XDR (eXtended Detection & Response) solutions are an emerging category of security tools that are designed to consolidate and replace multiple po...
Analyst Chat #87: Data Governance Platforms
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Fisher has researched the topic of Data Governance Platforms extensively, and he published a Market Compass on this topic at KuppingerCole Analy...
Analyst Chat #86: Zero Trust Means Zero Blind Spots
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The path toward a Zero Trust architecture to improve cybersecurity for modern enterprises in a hybrid IT landscape often seems overly complex and bur...
Analyst Chat #85: Hybrid IT 4 - Hyperconverged, Edge and Cloud in a Box
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode concludes the four-part series on hybrid IT. To wrap things up, Mike Small and Matthias focus on the latest developments in hybrid infra...
Analyst Chat #84: Hybrid IT 3 - Managing and Governing
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Part three of the four-part series on hybrid IT looks at approaches to appropriately manage and evolve hybrid architectures. Mike Small and Matthias ...
Analyst Chat #83: Hybrid IT 2 - The Challenges
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Small and Matthias continue their four-part series on hybrid IT, looking at the increasing complexity: they look at multiple dimensions of the c...
Analyst Chat #82: Hybrid IT 1 - The Basics
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the kickoff of a four-part series of podcast episodes around hybrid IT. Mike Small and Matthias explore the fundamentals of modern architectu...
Analyst Chat #81: Fraud Reduction Intelligence Platforms Revisited
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In episode seven of this podcast, John Tolbert and Matthias first looked at Fraud Reduction Intelligence Platforms more than a year ago. Much has hap...
Analyst Chat #80: AI Service Clouds
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Bailey has just completed extensive research into the new market segment of AI Service Clouds. In this episode, she explains this innovative con...
Analyst Chat #79: DNS and Privacy
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your DNS server knows what websites you use, what the name of your mail server is, and which corporate services you use while working from your home ...
Analyst Chat #78: DNS and DNS Security
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Some internet services are so deeply woven into the core infrastructure, that they are just taken for granted or even ignored in our daily digital li...
Analyst Chat #77: Don't Manage Access in Active Directory Groups
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Maintaining finer grained access by administering AD groups through dedicated and delegated application administrators is the reality in many organiz...
Analyst Chat #76: Do we really need Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM)
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
CIEM is one of the latest entries to the set of 3- and 4-letter acronyms in IAM technology. Martin Kuppinger and Matthias take a look at the function...
Analyst Chat #75: Get Rid of IAM Siloes
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Kuppinger joins Matthias for a first hybrid audio plus video episode of the Analyst Chat. They talk about horizontal (capabilities like AM, IG...
Analyst Chat #74: The Influence of PAM on WfH, and its Influence on PAM
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Building on the first three podcast episodes of this series with Annie and Shikha, Paul Fisher and Matthias turn their attention to the Privileged Ac...
When AI meets IoT: Does the Public Perception Reflect Reality?
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Internet of Things is everywhere around us. Almost every device we use is connected to the internet. But are they really smart or intelligent? An...
Analyst Chat #73: Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities of Remote Work
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Shikha Porwal and Matthias Reinwarth have a coffee conversation over the security risks of working remotely. They talk through the vulnerabilities of...
Analyst Chat #72: WfH Global Technology Trends 2021
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Annie and Matthias continue their conversation on the COVID-related trends in 2021. They conversate about different technology and internet usage tre...
Accelerate your Identity's Digital Transformation
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join Martin with Jackson and TJ from Clear Skye as they talk about how Clear Skye accelerates your Identity's digital transformation.
Analyst Chat #71: Cybercriminal Behavior in the COVID Era
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While the world tries to cope up with the on-going pandemic, cybercriminals have got their hands on a gold mine. Annie and Matthias sit down again to...
Analyst Chat #70: AdTech and Future Alternatives to 3rd Party Cookies
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Annie Bailey and Matthias continue their conversation around privacy, targeted marketing and the end of the era of the 3rd party cookie, that they st...