We’re thrilled to share that IBM is known as a Chief in the newest Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Entry Administration. IBM is acknowledged for its Capacity to Execute and Completeness of Imaginative and prescient.
As a workforce, we’ve been working exhausting to ship on a roadmap of id and entry administration capabilities that we imagine resolve the most important challenges organizations are dealing with in relation to managing identities in at present’s dispersed, hybrid cloud environments. In the end, our imaginative and prescient is to supply the fitting constructing blocks for organizations to construct an “id cloth” that integrates, augments and streamlines the myriad of disconnected and incompatible id instruments organizations are utilizing at present.
Let’s dig into what this appears like in apply.
The challenges of managing id throughout hybrid cloud
As cloud migration and digital transformation speed up, organizations are dealing with an enormous quantity of complexity in relation to id and entry administration (IAM). They’re more and more working throughout multi-cloud environments and instruments — every of which supplies their very own set of id and entry administration (IAM) capabilities to handle. On the identical time, they’re additionally nonetheless counting on legacy methods and architectures, which frequently lack a number of the normal capabilities wanted for a contemporary IAM technique. In the end, these instruments are making a disconnected and sophisticated net of identities to be managed, with no simple method to combine or streamline between them. These id silos disrupt strategic intentions of offering customers a constant and frictionless authentication expertise and bettering id safety.
Taking an “id cloth” method will help organizations bridge the hole between legacy id infrastructure and fashionable cloud-based IAM methods. An id cloth goals to combine and improve present id options slightly than substitute them. The objective is to create a much less advanced setting the place constant safety authentication flows and visibility could be enforced.
Offering the constructing blocks for id cloth
Our technique with IBM Safety Confirm is to assist purchasers drastically simplify their id technique – by offering them with the foundational constructing blocks to create an id cloth. Particularly, we’re constructing versatile and modular id options which might be designed to assist purchasers join their present IAM capabilities, bridge the hole between legacy and cloud-based options, and increase capabilities which might be lacking from inside these respective toolsets.
We’re constructing our id instruments in a means that helps remove id silos and improves consumer expertise throughout all apps. This contains extending fashionable authentication mechanisms to legacy apps with no-code modifications, enabling a constant consumer expertise throughout all purposes and bettering safety posture with real-time behavioral and biometric risk-based authentication.
Gartner® recognition for Completeness of Imaginative and prescient and Capacity to Execute
IBM was just lately talked about within the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Entry Administration, the place IBM was named as a pacesetter on this house.
This yr’s report focuses on entry administration platforms that “embrace an id supplier (IdP) and set up, handle, and implement runtime entry controls to at the very least cloud, fashionable standards-based net and basic net purposes.” Some highlights on the should have capabilities famous for this market are:
A listing or id repository for workforce or exterior customers that features id synchronization providers
Identification admin for built-in apps that features lifecycle and profile administration capabilities with assist for the System for Cross-Area Identification Administration
SSO and session administration with assist for normal id protocols and APIs for accessing standards-based and legacy apps
Consumer authentication (together with commodity MFA)
Authorization enforcement (together with assist for contemporary authorization protocols, together with OAuth 2.0)
Non-obligatory capabilities assessed for the AM market included options like journey time orchestration, low/no-code interfaces for personalisation and extensibility, passwordless authentication and id risk detection and response.
In the end, we imagine that the comprehensiveness and suppleness of our present capabilities, mixed will set IBM Safety Confirm as a perfect associate for firms seeking to simplify the muse of their id administration technique. This basis has the potential to pave the best way for sooner and more practical identity-based risk detection and response (ITDR).
Study extra about how IBM Safety Confirm will help you construct a modernized id and entry administration technique: https://www.ibm.com/confirm
Obtain a complimentary copy of the complete Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Entry Administration report for extra particulars on why Gartner® acknowledged IBM as a Chief.
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Entry Administration, Henrique Teixeira, Abhyuday Knowledge, Nathan Harris, Robertson Pimental, November 16 2023.
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