KuppingerCole Media Coverage

The cloud provides an alternative way of procuring IT services that offers many benefits, including increased flexibility as well as reduced cost. It extends the spectrum of IT service delivery models beyond managed and hosted services to a form that is packaged and commoditised. 

By Mike Small 24 May 2012
UK Computer Weekly

This year’s European Identity & Cloud Conference took place from 17.-20. April with the last day being a workshop day to deepen some of the topics. The event is one of the most important IAM meetings in the world and continues to increase its impact. Almost 600 visitors from allover the world and 40 exhibitors constituted to a 35% growth. As every year the vendor landscape showed some dynamics with NetIQ acquiring Novell’s IAM business, ATOS taking over Siemens IT Solutions and Services (DirX), new rising stars appearing like ForgeRock, Symplified and The Dot Net Factory to name a few, Ping Identity expanding its presence and big companies like VMWare participating for the first time.

April 25, 2012
SSOCircle

Quest Software Monday announced its acquisition of access-control technology vendor Bitkoo. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Quest is pitching the acquisition as a way to provide its customers with a more centralized and nuanced approach for handling authentication in multiple environments: inside the enterprise, including for databases--down to individual rows and columns--and SharePoint installations, as well as for cloud-based applications and Web services.

By Mathew J. Schwartz 20 December 2011
InformationWeek

UBS failed to stop a single rogue trader from racking up $2 billion in losses. Yet, some experts argue that banks overall may be better than others at managing risk.

By Mathew J. Schwartz 26 October 2011
InformationWeek

This year's European Identity Conference (EIC2011), a fixed star in the digital identity world took place in Munich, Germany, from 10.-12. May and a supplemental workshop day on the 13th. As last year the conference also hosted the Cloud 2011. In terms of venue the conference made a leap into the future from the venerable Deutsche Museum to the Dolce Ballhaus-Forum, a modern hotel and conference center north of Munich. Needless to say that the conference was well organized by KuppingeCole and newly introduced supplemental offerings like the World Cafe unconference or a crash course in international privacy and IT security law.

May 15, 2011
SSOCircle

While RSA has offered to replace some tokens, many customers still don't know how or why their SecurID tokens may pose a security risk.

Could attackers break into your SecurID two-factor authentication system?

Despite the open letter issued this week by RSA chairman Art Coviello, many of the company's customers remain confused about exactly what attackers stole from RSA in March, and what risk that information might pose to their enterprise, even if they're not a defense contractor.

By Mathew J. Schwartz 09 June 2011
InformationWeek   

WSO2, the lean enterprise middleware company, today announced that it has been awarded the European Identity Award 2011 in the Cloud Provider Offerings category by analyst group KuppingerCole. The award recognizes WSO2 for WSO2 Identity as a Service, citing the multi-tenant open source cloud service for its OpenID and XACML support and its innovative features, including the ability to migrate from on-premise to a full cloud service. This award was presented on May 11, at the European Identity Conference 2011 in Munich.

Business Wire

On the final day of last week's European Identity Conference (EIC) I sat in on a workshop/presentation of the new Respect Trust Framework, which is being billed as a new approach to giving individuals control over their personal data shared over the Internet and mobile phone networks.

By Dave Kearns 17 May 2011
Network World   

Kim Cameron, a Microsoft distinguished engineer and outspoken advocate of Internet privacy, left the company last week.

In a video interview yesterday, he says that Microsoft is on the right track, but he's worried that user privacy will get lost in the shuffle as big Internet companies like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook fight for market share.

By Matt Rosoff 13 May 2011
Business Insider

One of the things I love about the European Identity Conference is the willingness of the organizers, Kuppinger Cole + Partner, to explore new formats instead of tired old presentations.
Last year, for example, one of my sessions was "a Conversation with Kim Cameron." Kim and I and two microphones. No set agenda, just exploring identity.

By Dave Kearns 13 April 2011
Network World  

EMC's RSA hasn't detailed exactly what was stolen, so security experts advise the authentication system's customers to implement a more layered network defense.

How serious is the security threat posed by the theft of inside information about SecurID, the two-factor authentication system sold by EMC division RSA? "It is important enough that it required an official note to the stock markets," said Martin Kuppinger, founder and principal analyst at KuppingerCole, in a blog post...

By Mathew J. Schwartz 22 March 2011
InformationWeek
 

May promises to be really busy, and a challenge for anyone hoping to visit all the venues. First up is the European Identity Conference (EIC) in Munich (May 10-13). EIC is my favorite European conference and one of my two favorites anywhere. This is the place to meet with enterprise technologists, thought leaders and experts to learn about, discuss and shape the market in most significant technology topics such as identity management; governance, risk management and compliance (GRC); and service oriented architecture (SOA), both in "classical" environments as well as in private, public and hybrid cloud environments. I'll be there once again along with many speakers whose names are familiar from this newsletter (Kim Cameron, Tim Cole, Nishant Kaushik, Jackson Shaw, Martin Kuppinger, et al); you should be too. Sign up online so you aren't disappointed...

By Dave Kearns 15 March 2011
Network World

Virtualisation security is still a thorny problem for implementers, says a survey from Kuppinger Cole.

Security is the biggest worry for virtualisation project leaders, according to a report from Kuppinger Cole, an analyst firm that focuses on information security. 

Forty per cent of respondents said they believed that a virtual environment was harder to secure than a physical one.

By Eric Doyle 10 December 2010
IT PRO

There's still one or two issues to bring up from last month's European Identity Conference, which I want to get to this week -- one from a panel I was on and another from one I wasn't on.

Kuppinger-Cole senior analyst Sebastian Rohr inveigled me to sit on his panel "Directory Services in the Cloud" where, among other issues, we explored exchanging directory data in an XML-enabled world. I rashly suggested that Directory Services Markup Language (DSML) was sufficient for this purpose. But I didn't count on Australia's Andrew Ferguson to be lurking behind a screen where I couldn't see him.

By Dave Kearns 04 June 2010
Network World

Three days of conference plus a Workshop day packed full with IAM and GRC topics and even more. The KuppingerCole European Identity Conference EIC2010 was a great success. In my opinion the best EIC I have seen, although there were some confusion and unexpected changes that let me miss some of the presentations I was eager to visit. But that can be easily excused looking at the choice and quality of speakers. KuppingerCole again did a very good job in gathering many of the leading heads in Identity Management and GRC. The only thing I missed were people from Google like Eric Sachs, who did a lot in the OAuth and OpenId space the last years.

SSOCircle  Blog

To get through the intense European Identity Conference last week in Munich (thanks, Kuppinger Cole folks!), I had to make sure to drink lots of fluids. I’m referring, of course, to coffee, beer, and one extraordinary whisky (thanks, Ping Identity folks!)...

By Eve Maler 12 May 2010
Blog Eve Maler

Munich, Germany -- Information Cards and ICF members were very active in the European Identity Conference (EIC) in Munich this past week. To begin with, ICF board member Kim Cameron accepted the European Identity Award for “Best Innovation” on behalf of Microsoft for its U-Prove minimal disclosure technology. The award was shared with IBM for its similar Idemix technology. Both solutions were lauded by EIC host Kuppinger Cole as pioneering efforts in enhancing online privacy and security.

By Drummond Reed 10 May 2010
Drummond Reed's blog

I stumbled into the European Identity Conference 2010 actually only by accident, more being a web developer than an enterprise IT guy (although having to do with it in terms of connecting e.g. Plone to an LDAP server in our bigger clients). But I don’t regret that I actually did!

By mrtopf 11 May 2010
Blog mrtopf.de

SMARTSOFT'un Oracle işbirliğiyle ortaklaşa geliştirdiği ve sinir (nöral) ağlarının kullanıldığı risk tabanlı doğrulama ve yetkilendirme operasyonlarına olanak sağlayan çözümü ile SMARTSOFT - ORACLE - ŞEKERBANK işbirliği "En İyi Kurum İçi Proje" dalında ödül kazandı.Dijital kimlik yönetimi alanındaki seçkin projelere, inovasyonlara ve gelişmelere yönelik Avrupa Kimlik Ödülleri, Kimlik ve Erişim Yönetimi (IAM) ve Yönetişim, Risk Yönetimi ve Uyumluluk (GRC) alanlarında Avrupa'nın önde gelen merkezlerinden Münih kentinde düzenlenen 2010 Avrupa Kimlik Konferansı'nda coşkulu bir törenle KUPPINGER COLE araştırma grubu tarafından sahiplerine sunuldu.

By Mehmet Göksu 10 May 2010
Computerworld

Palo Alto, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/07/2010 -- MetricStream, the market leader in Enterprise Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management solutions is showcasing its GRC Platform at Cloud 2010, a European Identity Conference(EIC) on “Cloud Computing - Thought Leadership and Best Practices” hosted by Kuppinger Cole in Munich, Germany from May 4 to 7, 2010.

A couple of notes I read last week seemed to go together so nicely that I thought I'd share hem with you in hopes of stimulating your own thought processes. One came from a discussion of the LinkedIn cloud computing group while the other was a blog post by old friend Martin Kuppinger...

By Dave Kearns 27 October 2009
Network World

I spent a pleasant hour talking with Martin Kuppinger (of Kuppinger Cole + Partner) about "Externalizing Identity into the Cloud: Identity Services in Cloud and Outsourcing Environments" -- and we even had a surprise guest.

By Dave Kearns 24 July 2009
Network World

From May 5th to May 8th I attended the 3rd European Identity Conference (EIC). As a testimonial on the front page says, it was “a wonderful and informative event, well run and useful in so many ways.” (If I quote a page quoting me, is that recursion or delegation?)

I attended the first two EICs and, while I greatly enjoyed them, each conference has been better than the last. EIC strikes a good balance between providing a forward looking vision of what identity management technology should provide for business, and what practical solutions are available now.

By Dale Olds 03 June 2009
Blog Dale Olds

One of the highlights of the recent European Identity Conference was the conferring of the European Identity Awards, which recognize outstanding projects, innovations and additional developments in standards -- an area that should get even more recognition.

By Dave Kearns 19 May 2009
Network World

Last week's European Identity Conference was, as always, a wonderful look at not only European advances in identity management, but what's happening worldwide. I had the opportunity to host panel discussions that included people from Germany, Holland, Sweden, Norway, France, Italy, the U.K., Belgium, Canada, the U.S., Australia and India. It's a wonderful way to discover that although identity management theory is pretty much the same the whole world over, the practice, or implementation, of that theory has many regional, cultural and national differences.

By Dave Kearns 13 May 2009
Network World

As promised in my last blog entry, here are my top 5 observations from last week's European Identity Conference 2009, put on by the Germany analyst firm Kuppinger Cole.  The conference Web site is here -  http://www.id-conf.com/eic2009 where you can find conference podcasts, Twitter postings and more.

By Matthew Gardiner 12 May 2009
Blog CA Community

What a week… Along with lots of other people in the identosphere, I had a great opportunity to attend the Kuppinger Cole European Identity Conference in Munich all last week. Here are some stories, impressions, and links.

By Eve Maler 12 May 2009
Blog Eve Maler

Just back from another fine European ID Conference in Munich. The combination of the venue (the Forum at the Deutsches Museum), the speakers and our great hosts from Kuppinger-Cole + Partner (Martin, Tim, Joerg, Felix, Sebastian, Levent, Gabi, Bettina and all their cohorts) makes this an event ne plus ultra.

By Dave Kearns 10 May 2009
The Virtual Quill

This week the Information Card Foundation marked two significant developments at the European Identity Conference: the formation of the German-language chapter of the ICF, and receiving the European Identity Award for Best New Standard.

By Mike Jones 10 May 2009
Blog Mike Jones

I am happy to announce that Project Aristotle won an award for “Best new or improved standard” at the European Identity Conference. The win is shared with the Open Authentication (OAuth) and the Information Card Foundation (ICF).

By ArisId 08 May 2009

This year I finally have a chance of attending the European Identity Conference in Munich. I would have been already delighted to go there just as attendee, the lineup of speakers is phenomenal and the chances of good networking appear really promising.

By Vittorio Bertocci April 8th, 2009
Vibro.NET

Upgrade to Microsoft's ILM software has been years in development and now will not ship before January 2010

By John Fontana 25 March 2009
Network World

Because I'm based in California's Silicon Valley, a long stone's throw from Oracle HQ and surrounded by dozens of identity management vendors, my view of the global marketplace can be skewed. While I try to make up for this by visiting conferences and trade shows outside the United States (I’ll be at the European ID Conference in Munich this May), I do rely on readers and friends to keep me posted about things of interest in their areas. Today, we'll hear from one identity management player in Western Europe who has reported on the state of the industry there.

By Dave Kearns 26 January 2009
Network World

Proving security's worth is not always the easiest job. Once you've invested in systems, trained staff, secured the perimeter, secured the interior, put in monitoring and maintenance programmes, chosen what, if anything, to outsource, run penetration tests and more, what's the result? No-one gives out their password on the phone, catches a virus on their PC, leaves unencrypted data on the train or suffers any kind of a security breach. If all goes right, nothing happens.

By Rob Buckley 12 Jan. 2009
SC Magazine Australia/NZ

Thoughts on how to move the Identity Bus forward

Last time out I told you about an informal discussion I had with Microsoft's Kim Cameron, Novell's Dale Olds, Quest's Jackson Shaw hosted by Kuppinger-Cole's Felix Gaehtgens all about the so-called "Identity Bus." I said that we reached a conclusion about the best way to move forward, but perhaps it's better to say we identified a couple of paths that might be worth taking.

By Dave Kearns 05 May 2008
Network World

Identity Bus discussion at the European Identity Conference

One of the most interesting "panel discussions" I had at the European Identity Conference didn't have anyone in the audience. Kuppinger & Cole senior analyst Felix Gaehtgens gathered Microsoft's Kim Cameron, Quest's Jackson Shaw (former colleagues at Zoomit) and Novell's Dale Olds for a video interview (which may or may not show up at the KCP Web site) about the "Identity Bus" .

By Dave Kearns 05 May 2008
Network World

An overview of some panel discussions from the 2nd annual European Identity Conference

I had a wonderful time at last week's 2nd annual European Identity Conference in Munich. Martin Kuppinger and his crew at Kuppinger Cole + Partner for putting on an excellent conference, one which I highly recommend you add to your calendar for next year. I'd also like to thank the great guys who put themselves in harm's way (well, harm to their reputations) by participating in the three hour long panel sessions I moderated on the general topic of "Putting Context in Identity."

By Dave Kearns 30 April 2008
Network World

The recent European Identity Conference 2008 featured the presentation of Kuppinger Cole’s European Identity Awards. Vendors, integrators, consultants and user companies were asked for nominations. For each category, three outstanding projects and innovations were nominated as finalists. Here is how Kuppinger Cole framed the results:

By Kim Cameron 29 April 2008
Kim Cameron´s Identity Weblog

Martin Kuppinger is one of the key analysts behind the amazing European Identity Conference just held in Munich.  This was "User Centric Meets Enterprise Identity Management" with a twist: our European colleagues have many things to contribute to the discussion about how they fit together...

By Kim Cameron 27 April 2008
Kim Cameron´s Identity Weblog

Sessions worth attending at the 2nd annual European Identity Conference

Today I want to talk about a company I mentioned a year ago, with all intentions of telling you more about them. But even as I try to get them into today's newsletter, there's a timely issue to tell you about first, especially if you're in Munich this week for the 2nd annual European Identity Conference.

By Dave Kearns 24 April 2008
Network World

Businesses are looking to simplify the process of managing identities, according to analysts

The complexity of managing governance, risk and compliance (GRC) activities is driving firms to integrate identity and role management into the application stack.

According to analyst group Kuppinger Cole & Partners, identity management and role management have become so fundamental to enterprises' ability to manage GRC that business leaders are looking at new ways to simplify the process.

Gareth Morgan, IT Week 12 March 2008
Personal Computer World

Identity 2.0 technologies are leading the way in identity management, according to research from industry analysts.
Analyst group Kuppinger Cole and Partner analysed the 10 predominant topics and trends in identity management in 2008.

Clement James, vnunet.com, 12 Mar 2008
Personal Computer World

Web-Single-Sign-on ist auch für Firmen interessant

Analysten begrüßen den nahenden Durchbruch bei der Webregistrierungs-Technik Open-ID. Sie wird zwar derzeit vor allem im Blog-Umfeld eingesetzt, birgt aber auch Business-Potenziale. Dazu muss die Technologie für das User-centric Identity Management aber noch reifen.

Autor: Armin Barnitzke 14.02.2008
Computer Zeitung