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KuppingerCole’s Advisory Notes are short reports that present information about a specific topic, company, or product. Advisory Notes are published on a regular basis and are aimed at the management of a company. An Advisory Note gives usage recommendations and helps decision makers solve specific problems.
Enterprise role management done right
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Enterprise role management done right
Role-based access control (RBAC) has become an important part of Access Management and Access Governance. However, defining, implementing and maintaining an enterprise role model remains a...
Sustainable Infrastructures through IT Compliance
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Sustainable Infrastructures through IT Compliance
Well-designed, state-of-the-art compliance programs help in maintaining an adequate IT architecture and its underlying processes. Forward-thinking organisations understand compliance as a strategic...
Consumer Identity and Access Management for “Know Your Customer”
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Consumer Identity and Access Management for “Know Your Customer”
Consumer Identity and Access Management systems and services provide new technical capabilities for organizations to know their customers better. Implementing CIAM can provide better user...
KYC as an Enabler in the Financial Services Business Transformation
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KYC as an Enabler in the Financial Services Business Transformation
The Financial Services Industry (FSI) is undergoing unprecedented evolutionary and revolutionary change. FSIs need to transform their business models to respond to today’s challenges and to...
Information Stewardship in the Age of Blockchain
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Information Stewardship in the Age of Blockchain
Blockchain seems to be one of the most important basic technologies of emerging business models and countless entrepreneurial initiatives using it have been started in the recent past. This...
Rising to the Security Challenge of Heavy Cloud Adoption
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Rising to the Security Challenge of Heavy Cloud Adoption
Many enterprises have decided on a “cloud first” strategy, or have seen heavy cloud adoption evolve spontaneously as their business units embrace cloud for cost savings, agility or other...
The Impact of Blockchains on Business Process Management and Optimisation
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The Impact of Blockchains on Business Process Management and Optimisation
Distributed and decentralised ledger technology with Smart Contracts and the Internet of Things (IoT) can enhance BPM (Business Process Management) and BPO (Business Process Optimisation) processes...
The Blockchain and Life Management Platforms
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The Blockchain and Life Management Platforms
The core features of blockchains - decentralization and algorithmic consensus – can enable the creation of Life Management Platforms (LMPs) with better security and availability, as well as promote...
Blockchain and Risk
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Blockchain and Risk
A blockchain is a data structure, originally used by bitcoin, that maintains a growing list of transaction records in a way that is extremely resistant to tampering. This technology is seen by many...
Blockchains and Cybersecurity:  Augmenting Trust with Algorithms
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Blockchains and Cybersecurity: Augmenting Trust with Algorithms
From trusted third parties to algorithmic consensus: new cybersecurity opportunities and challenges with blockchains. Blockchains can provide distributed and decentralised improvements to the...
The Disruptive Potential of Blockchains in IoT Security
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The Disruptive Potential of Blockchains in IoT Security
Blockchains have the ability offer many solutions regarding the security concerns currently limiting the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT). Blockchains, combined with other decentralised,...
Integrating security into an agile DevOps paradigm
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Integrating security into an agile DevOps paradigm
Developing secure and robust applications and deploying them continuously and cost effectively? All organizations, digital or those undergoing a digital transformation, are facing these challenges...