The Covid-19 pandemic, has had far reaching impacts on global economic performance. Economic output in many countries is down, with many heading towards Q3 recessions. The main stock markets in the US and UK have seen significant downward trends over the last 6-8 weeks: But what impact, has Covid-19 had on public identity, authentication and […]
Beyond Identity came out of relative stealth mode recently, with the announcement of a $30 million series A investment from Koch Technologies and New Enterprise Associates. They are focusing on the age old issue of password management – “Eliminating passwords completely is the only answer – not using stronger passwords, password managers, or adding friction […]
The following is a high level capabilities matrix for OAuth2. The vendors chosen for comparison, are a selected few, that have well known capabilities within the access management space. For example, some are listed within the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Access Management – typically seen as the largest and most capable providers of access technology. […]
Okta recently released their 10K filing for the 2019 financial year with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The following contains references to that document unless otherwise stated. Introduction Okta is a cloud based identity and access management provider, who went public in April 2017. As per the filing, they describe themselves as: …the leading independent […]
Ping Identity recently filed their SEC 10K for the fiscal year ending December 31st 2019. The below figures and quotes are all taken from the March 2020 filing, unless otherwise stated. Ping is a leading digital identity provider, whose stated mission is to “secure the digital world through Intelligent Identity.” Ping Identity is pioneering Intelligent […]
The W3C backed standard for passwordless authentication, commonly known as WebAuthn, has been worked on by experts from the likes of Microsoft, Google and Mozilla for several years. In early 2019 it was recommended as a standard and is being adopted by many organisations as a result. This article will take a deeper look at […]
Sailpoint’s latest quarterly report, as filed with the SEC was released in November 2019. Let’s take a look inside. As per the Business Overview section of the 10Q for those who don’t know: “SailPoint is the leading provider of enterprise identity governance solutions. Our open identity platform provides organizations with critical visibility into who currently has access […]
As the first half of 2019 has been and gone, I’ve taken a quick look at the funding rounds that have taken place so far this year, within the identity and access management space and attempted some coarse grained analysis. The focus is global and the sector definition is quite broad and based on the […]
Today’s authentication requirements go way beyond hooking into a database or directory and challenging every user and service for an Id and password. Authentication and the login experience, is the application entry point and can make or break your security posture and end user experience. Authentication is typically associated with identifying, to a certain degree of assurance, […]
A Google search for “zero trust” returns ~ 195Million results. Pretty sure some are not necessarily related to access management and cyber security, but a few probably are. Zero Trust was a term coined by analyst group Forrester back in 2010 and has gained popularity since Google started using the concept with their employee management […]