KuppingerCole Identity Fabrics Leadership Compass Names RSA An Overall, Innovation, and Market Leader
May 16 2024 - 8:05AM
Business Wire
RSA, the security-first identity leader, announced today that
KuppingerCole Analysts AG has named RSA an Overall Leader,
Innovation Leader, and Market Leader in its 2024 Identity Fabrics
Leadership Compass Report, which provides CISOs, CIOs, and security
teams with key insights into the vendors that can “deliver the full
range of identity services required by an organization.”
The 2024 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass: Identity Fabrics
comes at a key moment in cybersecurity. More organizations than
ever have adopted multi-factor authentication (MFA), which is a
critical cybersecurity component but insufficient as a singular
defense against emerging threats. Recent data breaches—including
the ransomware attack that reportedly cost MGM Resorts $100
million, the Colonial Pipeline breach, and the theft of access
tokens—indicate that rather than attack MFA, cybercriminals target
other phases in the identity lifecycle.
Those attacks validate KuppingerCole’s conclusion that a
paradigm shift has transformed identity, and that vendors must be
assessed on their capacity to deliver an end-to-end identity
security platform to defend themselves from attacks. “The formerly
classic corporate network with clearly defined ‘inside’ and
‘outside’ has given way to a massively hybrid, new IT reality,” the
report notes. Given that shift, the report adds that identity and
access management (IAM) “has emerged as the essential security
infrastructure from which enterprises can facilitate new services,
models, and forms of cooperation,” and that managing “identities
and permissions in digital transformation is the key to security,
governance, and audit,” as well as “system usability and user
satisfaction.”
“KuppingerCole’s analysis showcases the centrality of identity
in assuring cybersecurity and recognizes the market shift towards
broader identity platforms. We continue to believe that—in addition
to breadth—depth in security capability will be vital, and the
future belongs to security-first identity platforms,” said RSA CEO
Rohit Ghai. “The KuppingerCole Identity Fabrics Leadership Compass
gives identity its due, validates the RSA Unified Identity
Platform, and recognizes the progress RSA continues to make
delivering authentication, access, governance, and lifecycle
capabilities to security-first leaders.”
“The KuppingerCole Leadership Compass recognizes that being an
identity vendor isn’t enough—to meet market demands and prevent
data breaches, organizations must prioritize the few vendors that
can provide all the components that an identity security platform
requires,” said RSA Chief Product and Technology Officer Jim
Taylor. “Both KuppingerCole’s Leadership Compass and some of the
worst data breaches in recent memory underscore why organizations
must always secure every phase of the identity journey—the Who,
What, Why, When and Where. The KuppingerCole Leadership Compass
provides transparent assessments of which vendors can sufficiently
answer those questions—and by extension, which vendors can’t.”
The KuppingerCole Identity Fabrics Leadership Compass highlights
several key strengths that RSA solutions deliver, including:
- Support for new secure enrollment workflows in RSA® ID Plus,
such as support for third-party ID verification
- Leading-edge access management capabilities
- Strong support for a broad variety of authenticators
- Many certified, out-of-the-box integrations for access
management
RSA was named an Overall Leader, Market Leader, and Innovation
Leader in the previous Identity Fabrics Leadership Compass report
published in 2022. The most recent Leadership Compass noted
improvements in the usability and interoperability of RSA
solutions.
Resources:
- Download the 2024 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass: Identity
Fabrics
- Read Jim Taylor’s blog post
About RSA
The AI-powered RSA Unified Identity Platform protects the
world’s most secure organizations from today’s and tomorrow’s
highest-risk cyberattacks. RSA provides the identity intelligence,
authentication, access, governance, and lifecycle capabilities
needed to prevent threats, secure access, and enable compliance.
More than 9,000 security-first organizations trust RSA to manage
more than 60 million identities across on-premises, hybrid, and
multi-cloud environments. For more information, go to RSA.com.
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