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Integralis set to become the security arm of NTT


By acquiring the Munich-based IT security specialist Integralis AG, the Japanese telco giant NTT (Nippon Telephone & Telegraph) plans to become a major player in the world-wide market for managed security and identity management solutions. Integralis (511 employees, €167 million Turnover) will be integrated as a separate division within NTT’s Communications subsidiary (13,000 employees, €10 billion turnover).
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Saving with security
This is true in many areas. Single solutions popularly labeled and sold under the name “Data Leakage Protection/Prevention” are mostly just conscience salvers. They may deal with a...
Awards for outstanding Identity management projects
Analyst company Kuppinger Cole confers European Identity Award 2009 On the occasion of the European Identity Conference 2009 (EIC), the leading European event for Identity and Access...
Trends and Threats in Desktop Virtualization
Desktop virtualization is clearly a hot topic in IT, but a closer look reveals that some elements are still missing and that in many use cases problems would be better addressed using...
10 Top Trends 2009 for IAM and GRC
As in the past years, Kuppinger Cole has worked out 10 top trends in IAM (Identity and Access Management) and GRC (Governance, Risk Management, Compliance). Things are going forward in 2009,...
How could a future Oracle-Sun Identity Management Stack look like?
On the 20th of April, news of Oracle's intention to acquire of Sun Microsystems took most people by surprise. Reactions predictably covered the whole spectrum, with an abundance of comments going...
Compliance as a risk?
It’s about strategy, not tactics
GRC (Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance) has become a core issue for any CIO over the course of the last few years. SOX brought popularity to IT compliance – and nowadays everyone...
Novell acquires again
Novell recently announced two “acquisitions”. In fact these aren’t really acquisitions in the sense of Novell buying entire companies but the result is pretty the same.
The Cloud
One of the key IT topics is the “cloud”. This term which is somewhat “cloudy” is definitely relevant. But, like most new trends, it isn’t really new. Many services...
The need for a holistic approach to IAM, GRC, DLP, PAM, and IRM
Closing only a few doors doesn’t solve the problem
IT is very well-known for first its ability to create three-letter acronyms and second the mix-up of different marketing terms, leading to overlapping and sometimes pretty unclear market segments....
eGovernment and eID in Europe
Ever since the infamous “Signaturgesetz”   (law for the regulation of electronic signatures) had passed the Bundestag (parliament) in Germany, the industry moaned about the...
 
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KCP's Identity Management Market Study 2006 has shown that role management is in fact still one of the most important identity-related topics for most user companies. Without a good understanding...

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Product Report: Siemens DirX Access
Siemens managed to enter the web access management and identity federation market successfully by buying in and then significantly developing technology. Siemens DirX Access’ version 8.1 is...
Vendor Report: Siemens
Siemens is one of the largest companies in the world. Siemens IT Solutions and Services (SIS), responsible for IT-products and services, is one of the different segments [Siemens refers to these...
Vendor Report: Aveksa
Aveksa's claim is "Enterprise Access Governance". The company is one of several startups which provide a GRC platform to support requirements of what Kuppinger Cole calls IAM-GRC, e.g....
Vendor Report: Beta Systems
Die Beta Systems Software AG ist ein in Berlin ansässiger Anbieter von Standardsoftwareprodukten. Das Unternehmen unterstützt die Bereiche Security (mit Fokus auf Identity und Access...
Product Brief: Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager
On Monday the 23rd of March, Microsoft announced that it would - again - delay the launch of ILM 2, the "Identity Lifecycle Manager". The release was now pushed back one whole year, to...
Vendor Report: vps ID Systeme
Die vps ID Systeme GmbH (vps) ist eine 100%ige Tochtergesellschaft der börsennotierten Digital Identi-fication Solutions AG. Letztere ist wiederum aus dem Bereich Identifikations- und...
Market Report: The SAP Identity Management Strategy
About two years have gone by since SAP took over the Norwegian manufacturer MaXware. Since then, SAP IM has positioned itself in the Identity Management market and significantly enhanced the...
Trend Report: SSO 2009
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Externalizing Identity into the Cloud
22.07.2009, 17:00-18:00 CEST, 11am Eastern
Externalizing Identities from applications into a service oriented layer within the enterprise IT architecture has been discussed a lot within the last years, mainly in the light of reducing...
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02.12. - 04.12.2009 in Munich
Kuppinger Cole are proud to announce the Cloud Computing Flagship Event for Europe: CLOUD 09. Making Cloud Computing work for your enterprise, how to prepare for it and what the risks involved with...
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European Identity Conference 2010
04.05. - 07.05.2010 in Munich
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Get the Big Picture - Managing Access beyond SAP for Cross-Enterprise Identity Governance
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Tim Cole interviews Kim Cameron at the European Identity Conference 2009
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