The importance of efficient and secure cloud backup and recovery is often underestimated. Mike Small explains these two disciplines to Matthias and looks at the market of available solutions on the occasion of his recently published Leadership Compass. He also provides valuable guidance on what a strategy and its successful implementation can look like in this area.

The three biggest threats to business resilience are IT Risk, Compliance Risk, and Vendor Risk. Integrated Risk Management Platforms address these risks. KuppingerCole's Lead Analyst Paul Fisher has analyzed this market segment recently and he joins Matthias to talk about recent developments and the market in general.

"Privacy and Consent Management" is an exciting topic in a continuously changing market. Annie Bailey has just completed her latest Leadership Compass, which researches this market segment. To mark the release of this document, she joined Matthias for an Analyst Chat episode where she talks about the innovations and current developments.

A new year, and 2022, like 2021, again begins with a look back at a far-reaching security incident. Cybersecurity Analyst Alexei Balaganski and Matthias take the topic of Log4j as an opportunity to look at code quality and cyber supply chain risk management. They also mention Mike Small's excellent blog post, which can be read here: https://www.kuppingercole.com/blog/small/log4j-how-well-did-you-perform

Paul Fisher and Matthias present their very subjective summary of a really special and, in particular, especially challenging past year, 2021. They cannot do without the word 'pandemic' after all, but they also try to reach a first perspective on the year 2022 from the past 12 months.

The announcement of the GAIN initiative for the secure distribution of verified and assured identity data has been made at EIC in September. While the core concepts of this initiative have been discussed in earlier episodes, Martin and Anni sit down with Matthias to do a deeper dive into further aspects of GAIN, including the use beyond customer-related IAM and the challenge of privacy in such a hyper-connected network for PII.

Senior Analyst Graham Williamson joins Matthias from down under to talk about edge computing. Starting from the definition and relevant use cases, they focus on where the edge brings value. They discuss what the key criteria for a successful deployment are and what needs to be looked at to do edge computing while preserving security and privacy.

Lead analyst Alexei Balaganski joins Matthias for an episode on Data-Centric Security. Starting with a definition behind that term, they look at relevant technologies and market segments and discuss adequate ways of adding Data-Centric Security to an organization's cybersecurity strategy.

From November 9th to 11th, the Cybersecurity Leadership Summit 2021 took place in Berlin and virtually online. The Monday after, Martin Kuppinger and Matthias sat together to talk about some first impressions and insights from this event.

The recordings and slide decks are available for participants and those interested at https://www.kuppingercole.com/events/csls2021/

In the past, servers and applications were rather static, and entitlements too were static. But this has changed. Organizations must deal with a multi-cloud, multi-hybrid IT. Entitlements and access in today’s cloud environments are dynamic, just like workloads. Martin Kuppinger joins Martin to explore the area of Dynamic Resource Entitlement and Access Management (DREAM). Together they look at policies and automation as one key building block for managing today's volatile IT.