2020 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for PAM

Privileged Access Management (PAM) is one of the most important areas of risk management and security in any organization. Privileged accounts have traditionally been given to administrators to access critical data and applications. But, changing business practices, hybrid IT, cloud and other aspects of digital transformation has meant that users of privileged accounts have become more numerous and widespread. To reduce the risk of privileged accounts being hijacked or fraudulently used, and to uphold stringent regulatory compliance within an organization, a strong PAM solution is essential.

This report is an overview of the market for Privilege Access Management (PAM) solutions and provides a compass to help buyers find the solution that best meets their needs. KuppingerCole examines the market segment, vendor functionality, relative market share, and innovative approaches to providing PAM solutions.

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How the Combination of Message, Video, and Phone Will Reshape the Future of Work

Before COVID-19, organizations dabbled in remote and flexible work arrangements for many years without any particular urgency. In the wake of COVID-19, however, the slow-and-steady approach turned upside down. Businesses suddenly had to accelerate their remote work plans and get employees completely equipped to work from home.

As business leaders plan to support more remote work in the immediate and distant future, equipping remote workers with the right technologies is mission-critical. It’s time to move into the next phase of remote work and explore permanent collaboration solutions - with WFH 2.0.

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Economic Impact of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

The IDC study “The Economic Impact of Red HatEnterprise Linux” identifies the global footprint of RedHat’s flagship operating system, the advantages it brings to IT organizations, and the opportunity it creates for its ecosystem.

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Why Network Verification Requires a Mathematical Model

Network verification is a rapidly emerging technology that is a key part of Intent-Based Networking (IBN). Verification can help avoid outages, facilitate compliance processes, and accelerate change windows. Full-feature verification solutions require an underlying mathematical model of network behavior to analyze and reason about policy objectives and network designs. A mathematical model, as opposed to monitoring or testing live traffic, can perform exhaustive and definitive analysis of network implementations and behavior, including proving network isolation or security rules.

In this paper, we will describe how verification can be used in key IT processes and workflows, why a mathematical model is required and how it works, as well as example use cases from the Forward Enterprise platform. This will also clarify what requirements a mathematical model must meet and how to evaluate alternative products.

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Best Practices for Managing Risks in Your Cloud Deployment

Complex, distributed resources in the cloud call for an update to the standard risk management and security approach.

For enterprises transitioning from on-prem architectures, a move to the cloud opens up new and un-chartered territory when it comes to managing risk. For security teams tasked with securing cloud environments the challenge might seem overwhelming. This eBook presents 7 easy-to-implement best practices for securing your cloud deployment.

Download your copy of the eBook to learn more about:

  • Top challenges confronting security teams as they transition to cloud environments
  • How to find the right balance between usability and security when designing your security for the cloud
  • Visibility requirements to effectively and efficiently secure your ever expanding cloud deployments

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Getting Buy-In for IT Security Initiatives in Your Organization

While security professionals may be tempted to focus solely on the technical aspects of solutions, the decision makers in charge have a broader mandate. To get behind any security solution, they may need an array of assurances. This guide helps project teams overcome roadblocks to build consensus.

Download this paper from Dell Technologies and Intel® to learn more.

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Whitepaper – Transforming the manufacturing value chain with APIs

Manufacturers have significantly improved value chain performance over the past 20 years, boosting industry productivity by 47%. However, traditional methodologies are now delivering diminishing returns. To tackle digital transformation initiatives and connect data across every link of the digital supply chain, leading manufacturers have tapped into APIs.

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  • Case studies of Airbus, Univar, and ABB's API-led manufacturing value chain innovation.
  • Best practices to transform the manufacturing value chain from sales to supply chain to factory operations to service.
  • Top digital technologies to increase manufacturing efficiency and reduce time to market.

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Whitepaper – A 3-step guide to insurance transformation

Traditional insurers are no longer safe with insurtechs challenging incumbents to rethink their business and operating models. This mass disruption creates increased pressure on IT to deliver intrinsic business value, including new services, customer touchpoints, and experiences. Successful insurance transformation requires rethinking the traditional IT operating model to allow IT to focus on creating reusable assets that empower lines of business. Doing so increases IT’s delivery capacity, making businesses more agile.

Read this whitepaper to learn:

  • An overview of the challenges insurers are facing in the industry.
  • How a new IT operating model – API-led connectivity – allows IT teams to unlock data from legacy systems and drive reuse across the enterprise.
  • Strategies for using APIs to create a single view of the customer and build connected customer experiences.

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Whitepaper – How APIs power digital transformation for energy and utilities

Energy and utilities providers face more uncertainty than ever before as they grapple with price volatility, geopolitical and regulatory instability, newly viable technologies, and increasing calls to decarbonize. As a result, utilities’ IT teams are under pressure to deliver effective digital transformation through differentiated customer experiences, improved employee productivity and capital efficiencies, and product portfolio expansion to open new revenue streams.

Download this energy and utilities whitepaper to access:

  • Case studies of Siemens and BP’s API-led innovations to improve customer and stakeholder experiences.
  • Best practices to unlock critical data while also supporting the adoption of new technologies including mobile, cloud, blockchain, and IoT.
  • Top digital technologies for energy and utilities companies to increase efficiency and reduce time to market.

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Whitepaper – Modernize retail customer engagement with APIs

eCommerce offers consumers new ways to interact with traditional retailers, resulting in changed consumer preferences – 63% of customers today would switch brands for a better connected experience, and 75% want personalized offers based on purchase history. Traditional retailers need to consider how to build a new digital retail platform strategy within their business models to engage with consumers and help maintain their competitive edge.

Read this whitepaper to learn:

  • A 4-step strategy for retailers to build a retail digital platform strategy with APIs.
  • The role APIs can play in optimizing consumer journey personalization and creating new revenue channels.
  • How a leading fast food company created a unified consumer experience by adopting a platform-based business model.

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Whitepaper – 7 steps to cultivate a thriving API ecosystem

With an API ecosystem, businesses can democratize access to their existing assets and capabilities through APIs that can be securely shared with external parties. An API ecosystem extends the value of these APIs by bringing internal and external stakeholders together to share knowledge, tools, and assets. This allows organizations to stay agile, deliver faster, and maximize investments. MuleSoft, in partnership with ProgrammableWeb, has created a baseline methodology for establishing an API ecosystem with a customer-centric mindset.

In this whitepaper, you will learn how to:

  • Co-create value partners, customers, and third-party developers.
  • Treat APIs as products through design, delivery, and consumption.
  • Build your organization’s roadmap for creating an API ecosystem.

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Whitepaper – Your Roadmap to Government IT Modernization

Today, government IT teams are expected to deliver more services with fewer resources. Consequently, many agencies have prioritized legacy modernization, interoperability and shared service models as a means towards increasing IT delivery capacity.

But those approaches are easier talked about than executed. As agencies embark on legacy modernization, it becomes imperative to open up the existing technology so that new innovations can be delivered as needed in a secure way.

In this guide, produced in partnership with Govloop, we will discuss

  • A five-play roadmap to help those in government get a better sense of where to start on modernization projects.
  • An overview of the Information Technology Modernization Fund (ITMF).
  • Featured government success stories highlighting their modernization projects.
  • The IT Modernization Lifecycle, based on the recent report by the American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council.

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Whitepaper – Accelerating government IT innovation

Evolving citizen and constituent expectations have created the imperative for government to digitally transform. Delivering on digital transformation grows more challenging by the year, as the proliferation of modern technologies (e.g. SaaS, mobile, IoT) forces IT teams to rethink how to best deliver projects to their constituents and deliver on their mission.

Microservices have emerged as a means through which government IT teams can increase project delivery speed without compromising on security. This whitepaper discusses the role microservices can play in government, and how API-led connectivity helps agencies to more effectively and securely implement a microservices architecture.

Readers will learn:

  • Why government IT teams must move beyond point-to-point integration.
  • How API-led connectivity supports microservices adoption in government.
  • How government can use MuleSoft’s FedRAMP In Process integration platform to rapidly develop APIs and microservices.
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