IBM Named a Leader in 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management

We’re thrilled to share that IBM is called a Chief in the latest Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Entry Administration. IBM is acknowledged for its Skill to Execute and Completeness of Imaginative and prescient.

As a staff, we’ve been working exhausting to ship on a roadmap of id and entry administration capabilities that we imagine resolve the largest challenges organizations are going through in terms of managing identities in at present’s dispersed, hybrid cloud environments. In the end, our imaginative and prescient is to offer the suitable constructing blocks for organizations to construct an “id material” 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 observe.

The challenges of managing id throughout hybrid cloud

As cloud migration and digital transformation speed up, organizations are going through an enormous quantity of complexity in terms of id and entry administration (IAM). They’re more and more working throughout multi-cloud environments and instruments — every of which gives their very own set of id and entry administration (IAM) capabilities to handle. On the identical time, they’re additionally nonetheless counting on legacy techniques and architectures, which frequently lack a few of the commonplace capabilities wanted for a contemporary IAM technique. In the end, these instruments are making a disconnected and sophisticated internet of identities to be managed, with no straightforward option 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 material” strategy might help organizations bridge the hole between legacy id infrastructure and fashionable cloud-based IAM techniques. An id material goals to combine and improve present id options relatively than change them. The objective is to create a much less complicated setting the place constant safety authentication flows and visibility will be enforced.

Offering the constructing blocks for id material

Our technique with IBM Security Verify is to assist purchasers drastically simplify their id technique – by offering them with the foundational constructing blocks to create an identity fabric. 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 manner that helps get rid of id silos and improves consumer expertise throughout all apps. This contains extending fashionable authentication mechanisms to legacy apps with no-code adjustments, enabling a constant consumer expertise throughout all purposes and bettering safety posture with real-time behavioral and biometric risk-based authentication.

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Gartner® recognition for Completeness of Imaginative and prescient and Skill to Execute

IBM was not too long ago talked about within the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Entry Administration, the place IBM was named as a frontrunner on this area. 

This 12 months’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 internet and traditional internet purposes.” Some highlights on the will need to 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 help for the System for Cross-Area Identification Administration
• SSO and session administration with help for traditional id protocols and APIs for accessing standards-based and legacy apps
• Person authentication (together with commodity MFA)
• Authorization enforcement (together with help for contemporary authorization protocols, together with OAuth 2.0)

Non-compulsory capabilities assessed for the AM market included options like journey time orchestration, low/no-code interfaces for personalisation and extensibility, passwordless authentication and id menace detection and response.

In the end, we imagine that the comprehensiveness and adaptability of our present capabilities, mixed will set IBM Safety Confirm as a perfect associate for firms trying to simplify the inspiration of their id administration technique. This basis has the potential to pave the way in which for quicker and simpler identity-based menace detection and response (ITDR).

See beneath to obtain a complimentary copy of the total Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Entry Administration report for extra particulars on why Gartner® acknowledged IBM as a Chief.

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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Entry Administration, Henrique Teixeira, Abhyuday Knowledge, Nathan Harris, Robertson Pimental, November 16 2023.

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