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Market Overview: Identity Governance & Administration (IGA)

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Nitish Deshpande
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KuppingerCole
Nitish Deshpande
Nitish joined KuppingerCole Analysts AG in February 2022 as a Research Analyst. Education: Master of International Business and Engineering from SRH Hochschule Heidelberg, Germany Bachelor of Engineering from University of Pune, India Areas of Coverage: IGA, IAM and Cybersecurity...
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European Identity and Cloud Conference 2023
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Cyber Insurance Claims & Denials
May 12, 2023
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Passwordless by Design ("~pbD"?) - Real-Life Experiences, Constraints, and Implications
May 10, 2023
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Weaving a Standards Framework for Non-Human Identities
May 11, 2023

We entrust workloads and devices with our most sensitive data, giving them access to far more information than the human on whose behalf it operates, if it is even operating on behalf of a human. Yet, managing these non-human identities and applying Zero Trust Policies to them is a Herculean task complicated by a heterogenous technology landscape, amplified by multi-cloud/multi-hybrid environments, exacerbated by critical skills shortages and magnified by exponential growth in workload and device identities.

It's the kind of problem standards excel at solving by creating interoperability layers between heterogenous environments, codifying the wisdom of the crowd to alleviate pressures on rare skills, and creating eco-systems of interoperable solutions that meet a common security bar.

Fortunately there are already several standards efforts that can help us manage non-human identities. But how are all these efforts related and how to we avoid replacing a patchwork of heterogenous solutions with a patchwork of heterogenous standards? Is it possible to craft a standards framework and connect all these efforts in a single identity trust fabric, and is that desirable? If we had such a framework, what would it look like?

In this talk we explore the benefits of weaving a standards framework for non-human identities by bringing together more than 18 standards from at least 7 standards bodies while identifying opportunities to align and connect them all to solve the emerging challenge of managing non-human identities at scale.

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Centralized eID May be the Target of the Next Nordstream Pipeline Attack
May 11, 2023

With the vast centralization of government digitization in general, and issuance and operation of Digital Identity services in particular, the Nordic countries have made themselves unnecessarily vulnerable to attacks by actors such as those with the resources to blow up the Nordstream pipelines in the Baltic Sea.

With the new Danish digital identity, MitID, as an example, I will discuss

  1. How governments and/or banks centrally attempt to strike a balance between vulnerability and user adoption,
  2. Why compliance and certification may only take you so far, and finally,
  3. How concepts such as wallets and Verifiable Credentials may decentralize the digital identity ecosystem not only for increased privacy but also for more robust and secure infrastructures less prone to attacks by bad actors.
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Verifiable Digital Credentials: Comparison of Characteristics, Capabilities and Standardization of Emerging Formats and Issuance Protocols
May 10, 2023

In 2022, several standards organizations and open source groups made great progress defining protocol specifications and code for the issuance of digital credentials. In this session, learn about and discuss some of the emerging issuance protocols, and compare their features, capabilities and trade offs.

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Cyber Insurance: Results from a Recent Survey
May 12, 2023

After several tumultuous years, the cyber insurance safety net is in question as costs rise and coverage contracts. Research conducted with IT security professionals to understand the real-life experiences companies have in obtaining and using cyber insurance.In this session we’ll unpack the survey findings and put them in context. Join the discussion to prepare for your next cyber insurance assessment so you end up with coverage and rates that accurately reflect your organization’s risk profile.

Joe Carson will talk about

  • The factors driving the skyrocketing costs of cyber insurance
  • The role Boards of Directors play in driving demand for cyber insurance
  • Fine print to check before finalizing your cyber insurance policy

And help you find answers to these questions

  • What security controls do cyber insurance companies expect you to have?
  • What cyber incidents are excluded from cyber insurance policies?
  • What recovery costs does cyber insurance cover?
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Moving on from legacy MFA: Phishing-resistant MFA as a prerequisite for Passwordless
May 10, 2023

As long as passwords exist, enterprises are vulnerable to account takeover attacks –yet organizations looking to eliminate passwords may not know where to begin their passwordless journey. While passwordless authentication methods—especially those based on FIDO2—are widely available, they are not yet universally supported nor adopted. This lack of a universal approach can cause confusion and complacency—or both. Attend this session to learn why (and how) organizations should move away from passwords and legacy MFA to advance to and adopt a secure passwordless strategy centered on phishing-resistant MFA in 2023

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Assignment Based Access
May 10, 2023

In the current economical climate many companies are facing the need to restructure the operations to ensure efficieny and profitability.

This does in some cases result in layoffs but is also means that projects are cancelled and the staff that was assigned to these projects are freed up for other efforts. In IAM terms the results is a lot of movers in the organisation which traditionally has been a usecase that has been challenging to efficiently support.

How do we help the business and support the need for assignment based access to ensure efficient usage of staff? This talk will look at the lessons learned from implementing assigned based access at a global retailer. It may also include Swedish meatballs, flatpack furniture and moose hunting towers.

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Lessons Learned from Implementing PBAC Solutions with OPA
May 10, 2023

During the last 3 years we have seen a significant uptake on decoupled authorizations solutions, the main drivers behind this is a move to the cloud, micros services and ZT implementations. In this speech Gustaf Kaijser will walk you through the feedback he has been getting from the organisations that have implemented OPA based solutions the last years, and the significant gains that they have seen in:

  • Automation of policy checks
  • Application development
  • Consistent policies across applications and infrastructure
  • Troubleshooting / Time to repairs
  • Cost of change
  • and audit
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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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Past, Present and Future of the Italian Digital Identity Ecosystem
May 11, 2023

Italy has two National Digital Identity schemes, namely: SPID and CieID (leveraging the national ID card). Both of them are based on SAML2 and are on their way to supporting OpenID Connect. The reasons for this decision are numerous, and they are primarily related to OpenID Connect Core features such as flexibility, ease of implementation, better support for mobile applications, and widespread adoption, particularly in the private sector. To manage this transition, we considered several documents by the OAuth working group describing security best Current Practices and the OpenID Foundation specifying a profile for iGov and a framework for federation. In particular, the latter defines a hierarchical federation model with high security, interoperability, scalability, and transparency based on dynamic delegation mechanisms; Italy is an enthusiastic early adopter.
In this talk, we introduce the Italian OpenID Connect profile based on the iGov and federation profiles and explain the main security measures that we considered within our design from the aforementioned standards and available best current practices. We also discuss how the Italian OpenID Connect profile contributes to the iGov and OpenID Connect Federation documents. We conclude the presentation with a brief discussion of eIDAS 2.0 and some of the ongoing preliminary works in the context of the Italian digital identity ecosystem to move toward an SSI-based solution using the Italian OpenID Connect profile as a starting point.

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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.