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Increased remote working, a dramatically increased digital customer interaction landscape, the hyperconnected industry 4.0 enterprise, an increasingly complex multi-cloud multi-hybrid infrastructure - much of what we based our past strategic assumptions on has developed faster and with a different emphasis.

Cyber-Attacks are increasing in frequency and they are getting smarter at an amazing pace, with each successful hit being potentially more disastrous than the last, causing greater destruction and incurring higher recovery costs.

This Buyer's Compass covers solutions that provide backup and restoration of IT service data into the cloud in the context of the hybrid IT service delivery environment that is now commonly found in medium to large organizations. These solutions provide the capability to backup IT service data together with all the necessary meta data required to make it possible to restore an exact copy of the application and its data together with its structure and permissions to achieve given Recovery Point and Recovery Time Objectives.

Inconvenient and weak digital identity affects our digital economy.  Adding more band-aids to the legacy knowledge-based digital identity infrastructure isn’t effective anymore.   The FIDO Alliance introduced standards for possession backed authentication which are now supported by all major platforms.  Additionally,  the Alliance is developing new standards for document based ID verification and passwordless device onboarding. With standardized approaches supported by the ecosystem, we have all ingredients for a wholesale upgrade to the “fabric...

This PAM platform has traditional tools at its core including account discovery, vault, session management and recording. To extend its business usage it also offers effective monitoring, analytics and risk management tools. Privileged Account Manager is described as a gateway approach to privileged access and supports privileged session management across a variety of systems including enterprise business applications such as SAP, major database technologies and popular SaaS applications.

Atos DirX Access is a mature solution for Access Management, covering the full range of targets from legacy web applications to modern SaaS services, and also supporting IoT environments. It comes with comprehensive support for modern standards, including FIDO 2.0 and W3C WebAuthn. A specific strength is the support for specific capabilities such as session state sharing across servers, Dynamic Authorization Management, or integrated User Behavior Analytics. Atos DirX Access counts amongst the most feature-rich solutions on the market.