What were the key takeaways from EIC 2025? This week, Matthias Reinwarth speaks with Dr. Phillip Messerschmidt, IAM expert and advisor at KuppingerCole Analysts, to get a personal review of the European Identity and Cloud Conference 2025 and its highlights.

🚀 Key Topics Covered:

✅ Why authorization is still the hardest part of IAM
✅ Identity Fabric & Reference Architecture—real-world applications
✅ How to operationalize IAM frameworks for daily business use
✅ Convincing sponsors to fund IAM initiatives (Phillip’s keynote topic)
✅ Trends in Zero Trust, dynamic authorization, and enterprise IAM maturity
✅ Why IAM complexity is growing—and how to keep up

Whether you attended EIC 2025 or want to catch up on identity strategy trends, this episode delivers deep insights on the evolving IAM landscape.

Get ready for EIC 2025! 🎯 In this special episode of the KuppingerCole Analyst Chat, Matthias Reinwarth and Warwick Ashford take you behind the scenes of the European Identity and Cloud Conference (EIC) 2025. Discover the latest trends in digital identity, cybersecurity, AI-driven identity management, and the future of interoperable identity ecosystems. 🌐

We discuss key topics like:

Learn about the must-see keynotes, workshops, and panels happening May 6–9 in Berlin — and why attending in-person will make all the difference.

👉 Don't miss your chance to navigate the future of identity and cybersecurity with the world's leading experts.

One does not simply secure an enterprise without integration. In this episode of the KuppingerCole Analyst Chat, host Matthias Reinwarth sits down with cybersecurity expert Jonathan Care to explore the Cybersecurity Fabric — an emerging architectural concept designed to unify existing security tools, improve visibility, and enable automation and orchestration across your entire IT environment.

Discover how this approach complements frameworks like Zero Trust and NIST, what benefits it brings to your organization, and how it can evolve alongside your security maturity.

📌 Topics Covered:

Apple's defiance against the UK's call for a secretive surveillance backdoor marks a pivotal moment in digital privacy battles. With an open tribunal ruling, the clash between encryption integrity and governmental power unfolds publicly. Plunge into this landmark case influencing global tech policies, setting the stage for enhanced corporate resilience strategies.

Read the original blog post here: https://www.kuppingercole.com/blog/care/uk-pushes-for-apple-backdoor

Dive into the complexities of US isolationism and uncover what it means for global cloud sovereignty. Gain insights on data privacy, operational challenges, and how these affect international businesses using US-based cloud services.

Read the original blog post here: https://www.kuppingercole.com/blog/small/sovereign-cloud-geopolitical-risks

In this eye-opening episode of the KuppingerCole Analyst Chat, Dr. Kashyap Thimmaraju, postdoc researcher at TU Berlin and founder of FlowGuard Institute, joins Matthias Reinwarth to discuss his groundbreaking research into burnout, well-being, and flow state in Security Operations Centers (SOCs).

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Join Matthias Reinwarth in this special episode of the KuppingerCole Analyst Chat as he welcomes not one but two expert guests: Nitish Deshpande, Research Analyst at KuppingerCole, and Martin Kuppinger, Principal Analyst and Co-Founder of KuppingerCole.

Together, they explore the evolution of modern authorization, discussing how far the industry has come since the early days of static entitlements and XML-based policies. From early insights shared back in 2009 to today’s dynamic, AI-enhanced, signal-driven authorization models, this episode unpacks the what, why, and how of modern access control systems.

📌 Topics covered include:

✅ What makes authorization "modern"?
✅ The shift from RBAC/ABAC to PBAM (Policy-Based Access Management)
✅ Real-time access decisions & context-aware authorization
✅ The role of AI and ML in modern authorization
✅ The connection between Zero Trust Architecture and dynamic policies
✅ Local vs. global enforcement and the future of decentralized decision points
✅ Data quality, governance, and identity lifecycle management
✅ How tools like OPA (Open Policy Agent) are lowering the barrier to adoption

In this videocast, KuppingerCole Analysts' Senior Analyst Warwick Ashford is joined by Prakash Sinha, Senior Director and Technology Evangelist at Radware, to explore how security teams can drive Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR) close to zero. As AI-powered attacks increase in sophistication and frequency, security operations centers (SOCs) must evolve by leveraging automation and AI-driven incident response.

Prakash shares insights on how AI can enhance threat detection, automate remediation, and reduce analyst workloads while maintaining governance and accountability. Discover practical steps for implementing AI-assisted security and the key success factors for modernizing SOCs in the face of an ever-changing threat landscape.

🚀 AI is reshaping Identity & Access Management (IAM)! As artificial intelligence evolves, businesses must navigate a new era of digital identity, security risks, and AI-driven decision-making. Will Agentic AI and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) redefine the way we manage identity and access?

In this week's episode, Matthias Reinwarth is joined by Anne Bailey to explore how Agentic AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and the latest AI-driven identity strategies are revolutionizing cybersecurity and digital identity.

🔍 Topics Covered:
✅ What is Agentic AI, and how does it impact IAM?
✅ The role of RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) in enhancing identity verification.
✅ How AI is transforming Identity Governance & Administration (IGA).
✅ Challenges & opportunities of AI in security.
✅ The future of IAM—What’s next?

🚨 AI-powered cyber attacks are here—are you prepared? Generative AI is changing the way cybercriminals operate, making phishing scams, deepfakes, and social engineering attacks more convincing than ever. In this episode, Matthias Reinwarth and Jonathan Care explore how hackers are exploiting AI and what businesses can do to stay ahead.

🔹 Key Topics Covered:
✅ How GenAI is revolutionizing phishing & social engineering attacks 🎭
✅ The rise of deepfake scams & their impact on authentication security 🔍
✅ Hallucination-based attack vectors—what they are & why they matter
✅ Can AI fight AI? Using machine learning to detect AI-powered threats 🤖
✅ Practical strategies to defend against AI-driven cybercrime

💡 Cyber threats are evolving fast—don’t wait until it’s too late! Watch now to understand how AI is reshaping cybersecurity and what you can do to protect your business.