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Buyer's Compass

KuppingerCole Buyer’s Compass is an instrument that delivers the key criteria to look at when choosing a service/product from a certain category. It lists the most relevant functional and non-functional requirements, lists questions to ask the vendors, and maps capabilities to the main use cases.
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
Buyer's Compass
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
The concept of Zero Trust is based on the assumption that any network is always hostile, and thus, any IT system, application, or user is constantly exposed to potential external and internal...
Security Service Edge
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Security Service Edge
Digital transformation and cloud-delivered services have led to a tectonic shift in how applications and users are distributed. Protecting sensitive resources of the increasingly distributed...
Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms
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Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms
Cloud IaaS is used extensively to develop, deliver new applications, and reengineer existing ones. This is often because cloud services provide an environment for accelerated development without...
Security Operations Center as a Service (SOCaaS)
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Security Operations Center as a Service (SOCaaS)
The Security Operations Center-as-a-Service (SOCaaS) market continues to develop in response to demand for security monitoring, analysis, detection, response, and improvement recommendations either...
IaaS Tenant Security Controls
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IaaS Tenant Security Controls
IT Organizations now commonly use multiple cloud services as well as on premises IT. This KuppingerCole Buyer's Compass focusses on the capabilities IaaS services provide to manage the common...
Providers of Verified Identity
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Providers of Verified Identity
It is no longer enough to create and secure user identities. Verifying that the identity does indeed describe the individual it was created for is a valuable capability in many use cases, including...
Decentralized Identity
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Decentralized Identity
Decentralized identity solutions - sometimes referred to as blockchain ID - are developing into a viable segment in IAM. Because the market segment is still very heterogeneous and gaining maturity,...