Press Releases

Wiesbaden, May 28, 2013 – Like in previous years KuppingerCole announced a variety of new Advisory Notes during KuppingerCole’s European Identity & Cloud Conference 2013, which took place in Munich/Germany. Besides various Reports about the winners of the European Identity & Cloud Award which have been given during a festive ceremony at EIC 2013, KuppingerCole also publishes the following Reports.

Wiesbaden, May 24, 2013 – KuppingerCole offers a standard approach on rating the status of current IT programs from both the Business and IT perspective and providing focused advice for further IT spending. 

Wiesbaden, May 22, 2013 – During the Opening Keynote at KuppingerCole’s European Identity & Cloud Conference 2013, which took place in Munich last week, Martin Kuppinger introduced KuppingerCole’s CIO GPS (GPS stands for Governance/Privacy and Data Protection/Security). The CIO GPS shows the nine areas CIOs should focus on for IT Spend Optimization, Business IT/Alignment, and Strategic Procurement, when looking at GRC (Governance, Risk Management, Compliance) and Information Security and provides orientation for CIOs and their teams on finding their way through all these trends and buzzwords, identifying the areas that provide the greatest business benefits.

Wiesbaden, May 16, 2013 – The European Identity & Cloud Awards 2013 were presented last night by the analyst group KuppingerCole at the seventh European Identity & Cloud Conference. This award is honoring outstanding projects and initiatives in Identity & Access Management (IAM), Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC), and Cloud Security.

Wiesbaden, May 15, 2013 – KuppingerCole’s European Identity & Cloud Conference 2013, the Europe’s leading event for such topics as Identity and Access Management (IAM), Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC), and Cloud Security, has opened yesterday in Munich, Germany. For the seventh time KuppingerCole has brought together most leading vendors, numerous end users, thought leaders, visionaries and analysts.

Wiesbaden, 14th May 2013 - Peter Cummings, a high-class Identity & Access Management Specialist, and Rob Newby, renowned as top-level expert for Governance, Risk Management and Compliance, have joined analyst company KuppingerCole as Senior Analysts.

Wiesbaden, December 18th, 2012 - Dr. Karsten Kinast, LL.M., one of Europe’s most high-profile data protection experts, has joined analyst company KuppingerCole as a Fellow Analyst responsible for all topics with a legal focus, in particular data protection law, IT law, copyright and media law. In this capacity, he will also act as a moderator and content director for these topics at the European Identity & Cloud Conference (EIC) 2013, which takes place for the seventh time on 14–17 May 2013 in Munich. 

Duesseldorf, October 18th, 2012 - Guideline and Advice in one: the KuppingerCole Advisory Note Cloud Provider Assurance helps companies to assess the performance of cloud providers based on measurable controls in order to make them comparable.

Duesseldorf, October 15th, 2012 - Overview and decision-making tool in one: the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass Identity Provisioning offers a comprehensive overview of the many identity provisioning solution providers in the market.

Duesseldorf, April 19th, 2012 - The European Identity Awards 2012 honoring outstanding projects and initiatives in Identity Management, GRC (Governance, Risk Management and Compliance) and Clooud Security were presented yesterday by the analyst group KuppingerCole at their annual event, the European Identity Conference 2012 (www.id-conf.com) in Munich.

Winners were chosen from a shortlist of exemplary projects and initiatives compiled by the analysts at KuppingerCole, end-user companies and vendors during the last 12 months. Award winners have all distinguished themselves through exceptional efforts in Identity and Access Management (IAM), Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC), and Cloud Security.

The European Identity Award highlights implementations and programs that the analysts of KuppingerCole believe have the potential to advance the awareness for and business value of digital identity in the context of business and commerce.

Duesseldorf, February 6th, 2012 - Fulup Ar Foll just joined KuppingerCole as a Senior Analyst. Besides his very strong background in large scale and high performance identity and access management, as well as information security architecture, Fulup´s research focus is related to consumer and citizen identity, mobile security and to the evaluation and assessment of technology standards. “We are glad to have Fulup on board. Fulup is one of the most experienced and well-known professionals in the industry and adds to the brain pool of KuppingerCole”, Martin Kuppinger, Founder and Principal Analyst at KuppingerCole says.

Munich May 11th, 2011 - The European Identity Award 2011 honoring outstanding projects and initiatives in Identity Management was presented on Wednesday by the analyst group KuppingerCole at their annual event, the European Identity Conference 2011 (www.id-conf.com) in Munich.

Expansion part of global strategy – expanded service offering in identity and security

Duesseldorf, October 05th 2010 – In order to better serve its clients in North America, KuppingerCole, the globally recognized European analyst group in Identity Management and Information Security for traditional, cloud and hybrid infrastructures, has announced the opening of a U.S. branch. Tim Cole, co-founder and Distinguished Fellow at KuppingerCole, will coordinate all activities from the group’s new office in Boston.

Identity Management and Governance for Businesses – and the Cloud

Munich, May 27th 2010 – The European Identity Conference 2010, which drew to a close on May 7th, 2010, has further solidified its position as the premier event for IAM (Identity and Access Management) and GRC (Governance, Risk Management and Compliance). At the same time, the topic of Cloud Computing—with special emphasis on Cloud Security and Governance—has shifted even more into the limelight, also as a result of the Cloud 2010 conference that ran parallel to the EIC.

Duesseldorf March, 31st, 2010 - Martin Kuppinger, co-founder and Principal Analyst at Kuppinger Cole, has written an article on the topic of „Identity Management for the Cloud“ in which he explores the reasons why companies and organizations must ask themselves if their Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems are capable of handling not just external users, but external ones as well: suppliers, partners and above all customers. Such comprehensive systems will increasingly become necessary as parts of corporate IT, especially services and data, become cloud-born. Here, security issues such as access governance and IT risk and compliance will dictate coming trends. In his article, Mr. Kuppinger gives an overview and suggests solution strategies that will enable companies and organizations to face the future of distributed IT with confidence.

Duesseldorf February, 16th, 2010 - Martin Kuppinger, co-founder and Principal Analyst at Kuppinger Cole, has just written a new article on data theft and insider attacks in which he describes the associated problems and risks and describes tactical and strategic measures to avoid them. According to Mr. Kuppinger, unprotected data and subsequent data leakage remain a major hazard in most organizations today. He also discusses ways and means for reducing information-related risks from both within and without.

The article runs to approximately 1,100 words and can be made available to you on request. Please contact me so that I can send you the manuscript.

New Overview Report from Kuppinger Cole available

Duesseldorf October, 14th, 2009 - 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 for this confusion is with high probability the fact that it allows to sell pretty easily all kind of technology under the umbrella of "Risk" and "Compliance" solutions.

The new report "A GRC Reference Architecture" aims to clarify the term GRC by defining a reference architecture, what exactly should be part of a GRC framework and how the different parts interact. It looks at GRC from a company-wide point of view, assembling all activities that have a certain internal control nature, yet focused on cost effectiveness and overall capability building.

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 Management (IAM) and GRC (Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance), the analyst firm Kuppinger Cole conferred the European Identity Award. The award recognizes outstanding projects as well as innovations and additional developments of standards.

Around 500 attendees. More than 50 exhibitors.

The 3rd European Identity Conference 2009 (EIC), which has opened its doors today, has already been a resounding success. This year´s conference continues to generate a lot of interest despite the difficult economic climate. With more than 50 exhibitors, the venue has established itself as Europe´s leading event on the topic. All big names in identity management will be represented there, which means that the EIC 2009 will provide the most comprehensive access to European identity management providers in one single venue.

Strategies for the right step towards "Cloud Computing"

The analyst company Kuppinger Cole will hold the Cloud 09 conference from November 24 - 26 in Munich. The leading conference on Cloud Computing in Europe will combine Thought Leadership and Best Practices.

25 useful indicators to lower IT risks

The analyst group Kuppinger Cole has presented a new report dealing with Key Risk Indicators (KRI), that is data measuring the risk in businesses. KRIs help businesses recognise and address risks. Risk management is becoming more and more important at all company levels, especially in hard times.