Identity Fabric and Reference Architecture 2025: Future-Proofing your IAM

The Identity Fabric paradigm has established as the guiding principle for building modern Identity & Access Management (IAM) infrastructures. Since the introduction by KuppingerCole Analysts more than five years ago, many organizations have adopted this concept to streamline their IAM architecture, portfolio, and investments. With the newest release of the Identity Fabric, KuppingerCole Analysts provides an updated framework that not only reflects the evolution of IAM with respect to supported identity types and technologies, but also provides additional perspectives and layers to help organizations shape their own Identity Fabric for human and non-human identities. The Reference Architecture as second major framework of KuppingerCole Analysts adds more detail to the Identity fabric by going more into detail on IAM.

Martin Kuppinger, Principal Analyst at KuppingerCole Analysts, will look back at the evolution of the Identity Fabric and provide insights into the guiding principles of the Identity Fabric, serving both as a fabric producing identity services and a mesh connecting different elements within the IAM infrastructure of organizations.

Dr. Phillip Messerschmidt, Lead Advisor at KuppingerCole Analysts, will dive deeper into the most recent versions of the Identity Fabric and the Reference Architecture, providing insights into what is new, why we’ve added and changed certain elements, and how this helps organizations on their IAM journey. He also will elaborate on why and how the Identity Fabric and the Reference Architecture help future-proofing your Identity Security investments environment.