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Fraud Reduction Intelligence Platforms (FRIPs): Critical Capabilities & Market Overview

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John Tolbert
Lead Analyst
KuppingerCole
John Tolbert
Background: John Tolbert is a Lead Analyst and Managing Director of KuppingerCole, Inc (US). As Lead Analyst, John covers a number of different research areas, outlined below. John also advises cybersecurity and IAM vendors, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, regarding their product and...
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European Identity and Cloud Conference 2023
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Adaptive Protection for Identities
May 10, 2023

Decentralized Identity protection is important in data collaboration because it helps to protect the privacy and security of individuals and organizations involved in the supply chain. By ensuring that only authorized individuals have access to sensitive information, identity protection helps to prevent data breaches and other security incidents.  A chain of trust establishes a series of checks and verifications that ensure that the data being shared is accurate and trustworthy. This is critical in the context of supply chain regulations, where inaccurate or incomplete information can have serious consequences for compliance and risk management.

In the second part of the talk, we will explore the concept of adaptive protection for identities in Microsoft Purview. By using a combination of machine learning, behavioral analysis, and risk-based decision making, we can create a dynamic system that adapts to new threats in real time. This approach offers a more proactive and effective way to safeguard identities, and can be applied across a range of industries and contexts. Together, we can work to develop a more robust and resilient digital identity ecosystem that protects individuals and organizations alike.

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Identity Data, Observability & Analytics - The Road to Identity First Security
May 10, 2023

Data is foundational to business intelligence - but how do you translate that into identity governance? Today’s enterprise has unprecedented levels of real-time, rich identity data across multiple parallel sources. More data leads to more predictive power in machine learning algorithms. These runtime data driven insights can become a central component to a systematic compliance and risk management strategy. This session will highlight how identity data can be used to uncover patterns, anomalies, and outliers and radically improve decision making, supporting your Identity First Security strategy.

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Is it a User? Is it a Person? No, it's an.. Identity?
May 11, 2023

None of us in this industry work with bricks and mortar or other tangible, real objects. Everything we do (in IT, not just Identity and Access) is instead a digital representation, an abstraction, of something that might exist in the real world.

Identity and Access is the glue for many of those digital representations, and this concept of representation may be the most important thing to understand when considering the different possible meanings of words.

People new to Identity and Access quickly find that many of the words they encounter have different meanings than they first thought. Most frequently encountered are probably “user” and “identity” - do they represent the same type of entity or is a difference intended? Do they refer to the physical, real life person or do they refer to a virtual, digital object somewhere within the IT systems? Or both at the same time? And since people are often reluctant to show weakness in front of perceived experts, questions are too often not being asked when unsure.

In any industry, a typical consequence of miscommunication is that the end product or project will have lower quality or take longer to get delivered. This presentation highlight how this problem of misunderstanding may be larger in our industry of Identity and Access than in others, discuss why that is, and what might be done to counter it.

The presentation offers examples of where terms are ambiguous (where definitions seem to vary across the industry) and it discusses ways to perhaps improve the situation.

The presentation is based on a corresponding article in the IDPro Body of Knowledge.

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Kantara Initiative Meet-Up - The Identity Place To Be
May 09, 2023

This workshop will feature the innovative and strategic initiatives underway at the Kantara Initiative. Where do you fit in and how can you benefit from all that Kantara has to offer? Key takeaways:

  • Kantara leads the way in US certifications for compliance with NIST Digital Identity Guidelines, 800-63. With all the major US identity verification companies entering their assurance program to obtain trust marks against the NIST 800-63 standards, earning IA2, AAL2, and FAL2 certifications. Learn how to become part of this elite group of service providers.
  • Version 4 of NIST 800-63 is out and Kantara is defining the requirements in the Identity Assurance Framework. Learn about future updates that will enable you to participate in real-world innovation that allows service providers and relying parties to gain meaningful return on their investment on the cutting edge of digital identity founded on standards.
  • Get the latest reports, white papers, and releases from the Kantara Work Groups, some of which will also be featured during the conference, including the Identity Assurance Work Group (IAWG), Privacy Enhancing Mobile Credentials WG (PEMC), Advanced Notice & Consent Receipt WG (ANCR), User Managed Access (UMA) WG, and Resilient Identifiers for Underserved Populations (RIUP) WG.
  • Equity and inclusion is a key priority for Kantara, learn about recent efforts and ways to use DEIA strategies to raise your bottom line and increase your return on investment by building DEIA into your business case.
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The European Union Goes Decentralized - Standards and Technical Architecture Behind eIDAS V2
May 12, 2023

The European Union’s regulation on Digital Identity, eIDAS, is currently being overhauled to adopt decentralized identity principles. The goal is to provide all citizens and residents across the EU with highly secure and privacy preserving digital wallets that can be used to manage various digital credentials, from eIDs to diplomas to payment instruments. Decentralized identity principles aim at giving freedom of choice and control to the end-user. Ensuring security and interoperability, however, will be challenging — especially in the enormous scale in terms of users and use cases the EU is aiming at. The choices made in eIDAS will have a huge impact on digital identity in the EU and beyond.

The so-called “Architecture and Reference Framework” (ARF) defines the technical underpinnings of eIDAS v2. Many experts from the member states and the Commission have been working on this framework over the last year, trying to select the best combination of technologies and standards out of the enormous number available in the market today. This talk will introduce the ARF and explain what architectural patterns and technical standards are adopted and how the challenges mentioned above are addressed in order to leverage on the vision of the eIDAS v2 regulation.

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Oh, How the Identity Industry Has Changed!
May 12, 2023

Since IDPro began its skills survey in 2018, we have seen technologies rise and fall and how IAM practitioners continue to struggle to feel proficient in their field. From the decline in directories to the power of personal identity, the IAM field is certainly not boring!

In this session, we’ll take a look at the trends over the last several years as seen from the IAM practitioners’ perspectives on the state of the industry, their professional goals, and their alignment with their employers. We’ll also consider what has changed – and what hasn’t – when it comes to our demographics and the diversity of the field. We will also offer some teasers of the results of the most recent IDPro Skills, Programs, & Diversity Survey, which closed in March 2023.

Attendees will leave the session with a better understanding not only of the state of the industry but what skills they might want to consider adding to their repertoire for the coming year.

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To Rotate or Not to Rotate (Privileged Accounts) - That is the Question
May 11, 2023

Rotating credentials of some privileged accounts is a risky task, which might lead to a business shutdown when things go wrong. But the alternative of not rotating them opens the door for attackers to take hold of your organization - thus leading to a business shutdown as well. This is a lose-lose situation.
So what should we do ? Rotate or not rotate credentials of privileged accounts ?
In this session we will discuss about the challenges and solutions.

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Moore's Law and its Seismic Impact on Risk Growth
May 09, 2023
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Reduce Certification Fatigue with Effective Role Management
May 10, 2023

IAM and security leaders end up certifying far more access than necessary, owing to a failure to classify business resources. Furthermore, business users pay the price because they must spend an inordinate amount of time filling out these lengthy surveys. Benoit will show how to reduce certification fatigue through robust role management, which helps business users achieve better results while taking less time out of their day.

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EU Wallet – eIDAS 2.0: The New European Identity Framework is a Gamechanger
May 10, 2023

The existing eIDAS governance framework for digital identity is fragmented for different regulated markets in different EU countries. Today identity provider solutions for finance, healthcare and other regulated markets follow central approaches for the management of identities and consent in high secure data center environments and using legacy standards (e.g. OIDC, central public key infrastructure).

eIDAS 2.0 creates a EU wide identity ecosystem with adapted new standards, new stakeholders and a focus on using mobile devices. The existing roadmap allows to anticipate three to five years (or more) transition. For banking, insurance, healthcare or the public sector it is time to adopt these standards in their digital transformation strategy.

Based on the Gematik requirements for a federated identity provider with central OIDC compliant resource and authorization server Comuny shifted relevant identity provider functions (data storage + token generation) on the mobile device.

The speakers will describe challenges and solutions for this regulated market. They also discuss the chance to combine existing central OIDC flows with mobile decentral, wallet based principles as a bridge into the new eIDAS 2.0 governance framework. The audience will get a clear understanding about requirements, opportunities and practice details to create the transition into eIDAS 2.0 identity ecosystem.

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Modern Authorization: The Next IAM Frontier
May 10, 2023

Identity and access have always been joined at the hip. In the age of LDAP, authenticated users were granted permissions based on group membership. But this mechanism hasn’t transferred into the federated identity landscape.

Instead, modern identity systems try to generalize permissions into scopes that are embedded into access tokens. But this doesn’t facilitate fine-grained authorization - a “read:document” scope doesn’t typically mean the user can access every document!

While identity has moved to the cloud, we still don’t have fine-grained, scalable mechanisms for generalizing authorization. So every application builds its own, and IT ends up administering every application differently.

Fixing this is arguably the most pressing challenge for the IAM industry. In this talk, we propose a set of principles, inspired by zero-trust and the latest work in cloud-native authorization, that should underlie the solutions we build:

  1. Support for fine-grained authorization (both ABAC and ReBAC), delivering on the principle of least privilege. Google’s Zanzibar provides an important blueprint.
  2. Managing authorization policy-as-code, enabling separation of duties and policy-based access management. Open Policy Agent is a good building block.
  3. Performing real-time access checks for continuous verification. This function should be downstream from authentication.
  4. Collecting fine-grained decision logs, providing the underpinning for comprehensive offline auditing and access analysis.
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Cyber Insurance Claims & Denials
May 12, 2023