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

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

As a crew, we’ve been working exhausting to ship on a roadmap of id and entry administration capabilities that we consider remedy the largest challenges organizations are going through on the subject of managing identities in in the present day’s dispersed, hybrid cloud environments. In the end, our imaginative and prescient is to supply 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 in the present day.

Let’s dig into what this seems to be like in apply.

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 on the subject of id and entry administration (IAM). They’re more and more working throughout multi-cloud environments and instruments — every of which offers their very own set of id and entry administration (IAM) capabilities to handle. On the similar time, they’re additionally nonetheless counting on legacy methods and architectures, which regularly lack among the normal 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 simple approach to combine or streamline between them. These id silos disrupt strategic intentions of offering customers a constant and frictionless authentication expertise and enhancing id safety.

Taking an “id material” method will help organizations bridge the hole between legacy id infrastructure and trendy cloud-based IAM methods. An id material goals to combine and improve present id options slightly than substitute them. The aim is to create a much less complicated atmosphere the place constant safety authentication flows and visibility could be enforced.

Offering the constructing blocks for id material

Our technique with IBM Security Verify is to assist shoppers 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 shoppers 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 get rid of id silos and improves consumer expertise throughout all apps. This contains extending trendy authentication mechanisms to legacy apps with no-code modifications, enabling a constant consumer expertise throughout all functions and enhancing safety posture with real-time behavioral and biometric risk-based authentication.

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

IBM was lately talked about within the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Entry Administration, the place IBM was named as a pacesetter on this area. 

This yr’s report focuses on entry administration platforms that “embody an id supplier (IdP) and set up, handle, and implement runtime entry controls to no less than cloud, trendy standards-based internet and traditional internet functions.” 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 companies
• 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 normal id protocols and APIs for accessing standards-based and legacy apps
• Consumer 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 personalization and extensibility, passwordless authentication and id menace detection and response.

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

See beneath to 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.

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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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