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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.

Alejandro and Matthias continue their conversation about passwordless authentication. This time, the topic is the use of biometrics (and possible security and privacy concerns related to their use) as an authentication factor.

Research Analyst Marina Iantorno works on determining market sizing data as a service for vendors, service providers, but especially for investors. She joins Matthias to explain key terms and metrics and how this information can be leveraged for a variety of decision-making processes.

Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) combines the traditional User Access Provisioning (UAP) and Identity and Access Governance (IAG) markets. Nitish Deshpande joins Matthias for the first time on the occasion of the publication of the Leadership Compass IGA 2022, which he has created. They both have a look at this evolving and fascinating market segment.

Leadership Compass Identity Governance and Administration: https://www.kuppingercole.com/research/lc81107/identity-governance-and-administration-2022

Only a week has passed since John Tolbert, our Cybersecurity Research Director, spoke at CSLS about ransomware and how to combat it. Today, he reports on specific threats posed by ransomware attacks to the healthcare industry, particularly in the US. But in the end, these are just examples of the threats against any user of IT.

Links to the mentioned ransomware attacks:

• Medibank
• Common Spirit
• Lake Charles Health System (US)

Helpful documents for cybersecurity in healthcare:

• CISA - Stop ransomware
• MITRE - MEDICAL DEVICE CYBERSECURITY

Deep Fakes, AI as friend and foe, Business Resilience, Mis-, Dis- and Malinformation: The Cybersecurity Leadership Summit has taken place in Berlin and covered all of this and much more. Martin Kuppinger and Matthias look back on the event and identify their Top 5 Trends from CSLS2022 in Cybersecurity and beyond.

"Passwordless authentication" has become a popular and catchy term recently. It comes with the promise of getting rid of the risk associated with passwords, however, organizations will add a significant layer to the overall security of their IT infrastructure. Research analyst Alejandro Leal rejoins Matthias to explain how this can be achieved in reality with today's products and services. He gives an overview of the market, the technologies and recent developments in this area.

CIAM solutions are designed to address specific technical requirements that consumer-facing organizations have that differ from traditional “workforce” or Business-to-Employee (B2E) use cases. John Tolbert has revisited this market segments for the updated Leadership Compass CIAM and provides an update to the analyst chat episode 58 from December 2020.

Cybersecurity Leadership Summit takes place on November 8 – 10 in Berlin and online. Join us there.

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are increasingly being promoted as an essential security tool for end users. This is not about the traditional access to corporate resources from insecure environments, but rather about privacy and security protection, but also about concealing one's actual location on the Internet. Alexei analyzes the operation and effectiveness of these tools and explains his view on the question of whether VPNs are really needed for security and privacy.

Cybersecurity Leadership Summit takes place on November 8 – 10 in Berlin and online. Join us there.