The Identity Fabric paradigm manifests an important cornerstone of the KuppingerCole Analysts AG research and advisory. Products in that area cover a wider range of capabilities including Access Management and IGA, and beyond. Martin Kuppinger joins Matthias to provide more details about this evolving market sector, and on which vendors and which products/services to watch.

Access Management refers to the group of capabilities targeted at supporting an organization's access management requirements traditionally found within Web Access Management & Identity Federation solutions, such as Authentication, Authorization, Single Sign-On, Identity Federation. Richard Hill joins Matthias for the first time to talk about this topic and the recent developments in that area as reflected in his Leadership Compass on Access Management.

Shortly before EIC, Graham Williamson and Matthias sat together virtually and discussed the recent publication of the Market Compass on "Policy Based Access Management". In this episode Graham gives a great introduction in this evolved market segment and talks about hybrid and cloud-native use cases. They hint at several sessions on policy-based and cloud-native access control at EIC as well, so for those interested in learning even more on modern authorization, either the Market Compass itself or the EIC recordings are perfect starting points after listening to/watching this episode.

SOCaaS (Security Operations Center as a Service) is a growing trend in cybersecurity, where core security functions are uniformly delivered to enterprises from the cloud. Warwick Ashford explored this in a recently published Market Compass and provides an overview of his findings.

John Tolbert and Matthias discuss the question of whether companies in retail, finance, healthcare, insurance, etc. are really able to keep up with the scale and sophistication of attacks aimed at committing fraud? Are they considering FRIP solutions for specific use cases?

A recently published study shows that the use of strong authentication in enterprise environments is at a very low level. John Tolbert explains this finding to Matthias and together they discuss how to find a way out of this situation.

Securing containers along their lifecycle and wherever they are deployed is a cybersecurity challenge. And it is a new topic for KuppingerCole Analysts. Alexei Balaganski joins Matthias to talk about the just recently completed Leadership Compass on Container Security.

Martin Kuppinger gives Matthias one of these rare insights into the process of creating and delivering the next great opening keynote of an event. With EIC 2022 being already in sight in May 2022 in Berlin, they talk about the composable enterprise and more perceived or actual buzzwords, and how to make sense of this in a business context.

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. Mike Small and Annie Bailey join Matthias to have a first look as analysts (not lawyers) at this potential milestone for data privacy between the European and the US regions.

This time Alexei Balaganski and Matthias look at practical approaches to actually implementing Zero Trust for specific, real-life use cases. On this occasion, they also finally unveil the connections between Zero Trust and Feng Shui.