With the rapid expansion of IT environments, adoption of the cloud, and the ongoing Digital Transformation, the need to provide secure access to organizational resources has become paramount. Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions are designed to consolidate network and security components, simplify management and licensing, and improve usability.

SASE is the union of a number of different networking and security technologies designed to improve security posture as well as connectivity for remote offices, cloud services, contractors, and remote employees, while driving down the cost of connectivity. John Tolbert is a guest in the Analyst Chat again and will give us some insight into this topic.

Cyberattacks have been intensifying over the past few years as cybercriminals continue to devise new strategies to launch sophisticated attacks and gain unauthorized access. The tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) that were once only used by well-funded state actors are being commoditized by cybercriminals. As a result, some vendors realized that the traditional approaches and tools of cybersecurity have failed to keep up.

Parallel to SIEM solutions, a class of incident investigation and response platforms has emerged focusing on creating more streamlined and automated workflows for dealing with security incidents. Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) products are the latest iteration of this evolution. SOAR vendors provide solutions that offer centralized coordination, collaboration, and management for forensic analysis and incident response.

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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 Messerschmidt has worked with many different clients who have found themselves in this situation. He will explain five of the most common misconceptions and problems he has encountered in his experience - and offer some recommendations on how to avoid them.

Is digital data really every organization's most precious possession, its "crown jewels"? Alexei Balaganski takes a different perspective towards a widely accepted opinion. He instead claims that data is not your most valuable asset. In fact, it can be a toxic liability without intrinsic value, since business value is only created when data is moving or transforming, producing insights, analytics, etc.

Read Martin's Leadership Compass here: https://www.kuppingercole.com/research/lc81120/data-quality-and-integration-solutions

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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, cleansing, improving, and enriching data across the complete range of data sources in an organization, for enabling use of that data as well as enabling data governance and supporting data security initiatives, that is the topic of this episode. Martin Kuppinger joins Matthias and explains this market segment and its relevance on the occasion of the publishing of a new Leadership compass covering "Data Quality and Integration Solutions".

The PAM market is changing and expanding. Paul Fisher talks about the latest trends for Privileged Access Management, the role of CIEM, mergers and newcomers in this important market segment.

A new year brings along a new service from KuppingerCole Analysts. Our host Matthias sits down with Christie Pugh, Digital Products Manager to discuss KC Open Select, our new interactive shortlisting service, the concept behind it, how it helps you prepare for the future, how it compares to our Leadership Compasses, and more.

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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? Martin sits down with Jackson Shaw, Chief Strategy Officer at Clear Skye to discuss one very important part of Zero Trust: Identity and Access Management. Because you can only verify what or who you know - they need an identity to get access.

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 identify top trends in IAM and Cybersecurity. They go beyond technology but also look at processes and business models. By this, they also provide an outlook to what to expect in 2023.

With this episode, the Analyst Chat goes into a short Christmas break. We'll return on January 16th.

The application landscape in organizations is getting more and more complex. Applications from vendors are more plentiful - or they differ very much from each other - and the combination of on-prem and cloud applications is no longer unusual. It's easy to lose track of all the different risks that are coming with that. Application access governance helps in unifying the different security perspectives. Martin sat down with Keri Bowman from Saviynt to take a deeper look into this topic.