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Risk and Services take center stage among IT managers


Simplicity – not to be confused with oversimplification – is the key to successful management. By focusing on the critical issues of risk and services, companies can be sure they have to two most important topics covered.
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GRC (Governance, Risk Management, Compliance) is one of the best-known and least understood buzzwords in IT today. As is too often the case, a variety of stakeholders have seized on the expression...
I recently took the chance to investigate the virtualization market a bit deeper, namely the market for Virtual Desktops as I have been used to server virtualization and the different flavors...
On the economics of Cloud Computings
Talking with IT decision makers these days, it seems that two new terms keep cropping up, namely the abbreviations “CapEx” and “OpEx”. They stand, of course, for...
IT professionals often have trouble convincing the budget managers that the often costly projects in Identity and Access Management (IAM) are really necessary. That should come as no surprise,...
How many terrorists work for your company? Dunno? Well, see you in jail, pal!
I just came back from a meeting of the German chapter of IAPP, the International Association of Privacy Professionals, and the words of the chairman, Dr. Jyn Schultze-Melling, a lawyer with the...
GRC (Governance, Risk Management, Compliance) has become a leading issue not only for IT professionals, but for senior management as well. However, it isn’t always clear who’s in...
Outsourcing and offshoring are a fact of life in many companies, but for some, when it comes to managing user identities and access rights or enforcing rules on governance, risk management and...
Novell has very recently announced a new product entitled "Cloud Security Services" - a comprehensive set of software that allows cloud providers to connect customers to their...
In times of economic downturn, the pressure is on to save costs and increase efficiency. Everybody working in the IT sector will be familiar with projects being put on hold, spending frozen,...
The news from Google  hit like a bombshell. Google is launching an operating system, called Chrome OS (like its web browser). According to the press release, the system will be shipping on...
 
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Objective, Independent, Substantial, Prospective: Kuppinger Cole Services for IT Professionals
KCP has compiled its experience and the results of its research in Identity Management into a roadmap which acts as a guideline for every company investing into Identity Management.
KCP stands for neutrality. We are strictly vendor-neutral. We don’t do any implementation because we are convinced that there is an irresolvable conflict between implementing some few...
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...

Reports
TESIS SYSware, part of the TESIS group, is a private company located in Munich. The group consists of three divisions that are involved in a variety of IT fields. TESIS SYSware’s (hereafter...
The two products discussed here, Quest Single Sign-On for SAP GUI and ABAP and Quest Single Sign-On for NetWeaver, are Quest’s offering in the market for Single Sign-On (SSO) between Active...
Amazon is widely known as online retailer, having expanded its bookstore business to many other areas over time. Some time ago Amazon has entered the Cloud Computing market. Amazon provides a broad...
Governance, Risk & Compliance - these three terms, in short "GRC" are pretty widely used in these days. Unfortunately, there is great confusion in how this term is used. The reason...
This report explains XACML, an evolving standard in the field of access control. Access control in IT is of vital importance. Companies use access control technology to protect sensitive systems...
SAP Security is a wide field. Most SAP Technology Experts think that SAP Security is all about authorizations, user management, roles, profiles and all that highly complicated stuff. But it is...
Citrix Systems (Citrix) is an established IT vendor which started with Terminal Server products in Windows environments, allowing users to access sessions which are running on a Windows Server...
SAP is the world’s leading vendor of enterprise business systems, with a core focus on ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), but as well delivering application platforms for business processes...
 
Virtual Events
09.02. - 10.02.2010
Identity management has become part of the infrastructure in most companies today. In the meantime we all have learned, that identity management itself is much more than a single project, and that...

Events
Webinar
09.02.2010, 16:00-17:00 CEST, 10am Eastern
IT organisations are facing an increasing pressure to reduce costs, while at the same time compliance requirements increase and management is asking for more flexible solutions to faster react on...
Webinar
09.02.2010, 17:00-18:00 CET, 11am Eastern
Versatile authentication flexibly integrates a variety of open and proprietary authentication methods into one security layer, and strongly simplifies the implementation of multiple authentication...
Webinar
09.02.2010, 15:00 -16:00 CET, 10am Eastern
Provisioning and access management solutions, core applications of any identity management infrastructure, on the one hand have reached a high maturity level, and are moving down the market making...
Webinar
10.02.2010, 15:00 -16:00 CET, 9am Eastern
Controlling access to information and to target applications, is the key element of a security policy. Access management includes multiple elements, such as access control, access delegation,...
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10.02.2010, 16:00 - 17:00 CET, 10am Eastern
Expert panel showcasing best practices migrating to a holistic auth(z) and auth(n) strategy.
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10.02.2010, 17:00-18:00 CET, 11am Eastern
Once having an identity management infrastructure in place, maximising this significant investment through expanding the infrastructure´s reach would be a good idea. In this webinar, we look into...
Congress
04.05. - 07.05.2010 in Munich
With its world class list of speakers, a unique mix of best practices presentations, panel discussions, thought leadership statements and analyst views, EIC has become an absolute must-attend event...
Congress
04.05. - 07.05.2010 in Munich
Kuppinger Cole are proud to announce the Cloud Computing Flagship Event for Europe: CLOUD 2010. Making Cloud Computing work for your enterprise, how to prepare for it and what the risks involved...

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