In the KuppingerCole Analysts AG 2024 Leadership Compass: Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) report, Nitish Despande writes that the “IGA market has a global footprint and is not limited to a specific region.”
The report explains why: “IGA products deliver strong capabilities in providing a centralized view of who has access, who provided the access, and who has access for how long.” With growing numbers of users, devices, entitlements, and environments, that centralized view is something every organization needs to move toward Zero Trust and prevent one compromised account from doing organization-wide damage. IGA also helps financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other regulated industries meet compliance requirements and fulfill audits.
That’s why I’m thrilled that, for the sixth consecutive year, RSA® Governance & Lifecycle was named an Overall, Product, Innovation, and Market leader in the KuppingerCole 2024 Leadership Compass: Identity Governance and Administration. Our performance in the report highlights the core capabilities that have always been central to RSA Governance & Lifecycle, along with new innovations like gamification to make compliance more engaging and out-of-the-box reports and connectors for faster deployment.
In reviewing RSA Governance & Lifecycle, the KuppingerCole report notes several strengths, including:
- New advanced dashboards are configurable and provide a wide range of information for reporting
- Risk engine is analytics driven for better insights into access governance
- API support covers various protocols such as SOAP, REST, SCIM, LDAP and SQL
- Supports a wide variety of authenticators for user and admin self service
Those first items on our new dashboards and risk engine are particularly noteworthy. As organizations add more users, devices, and entitlements, their attack surface grows exponentially, in large part because it makes it harder for security teams to find the high-priority risks that need immediate intervention.
Another way of putting it: RSA helps our customers manage 13 trillion entitlements across all industries. If I’m a CISO, I don’t want my security team looking through everything: I want them to find the right thing. Our dashboards and risk engine help organizations do just that.
IGA capabilities matter for every organization: they can help provision users, control access, and prevent threat actors from moving laterally to gain privilege and do more harm.
Beyond its cybersecurity benefits, IGA also helps regulated sectors meet audit requirements. The KuppingerCole report notes that “Companies in healthcare, finance and government sector which have critical data and strict regulatory compliance requirements rely on IGA solutions for governing identities and managing their lifecycle.”
That’s why RSA Governance & Lifecycle helps organizations in these sectors fulfill regulatory requirements:
Sector
Regulations and Standards
Financial Services
RSA helps financial services meet GDPR, GLB, SOX, and PCI-DSS
Healthcare
RSA helps healthcare organizations fulfill HIPAA
Government
In the U.S., RSA Governance & Lifecycle helps organizations meet CJIS and FERPA requirements. In the EU, the solution helps fulfill NIS2 and DORA.
Sector: Financial Services
Regulations and Standards
RSA helps financial services meet GDPR, GLB, SOX, and PCI-DSS
Sector: Healthcare
Regulations and Standards
RSA helps healthcare organizations fulfill HIPAA
Sector: Government
Regulations and Standards
In the U.S., RSA Governance & Lifecycle helps organizations meet CJIS and FERPA requirements. In the EU, the solution helps fulfill NIS2 and DORA.
As proud as I am of how RSA performed in the IGA report, that rating is part of a bigger story. RSA is also a 2024 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass: Identity Fabrics Overall, Innovation, and Market leader.
KuppingerCole notes that identity fabric is the “foundational paradigm” for identity and access management (IAM) today, and comprises a much wider range of capabilities, including multi-factor authentication (MFA), AI-driven risk management, mobile security, and IGA.
Having that full breadth of capabilities creates stronger security and more value for organizations. It’s why RSA has prioritized developing a Unified Identity Platform that provides the full range of identity capabilities that organizations need, including automated identity intelligence, authentication, access, governance, and lifecycle across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
We’ve got lots more in store for RSA Governance & Lifecycle, including finding ways to bring parts of the solution to other components of the RSA Unified Identity Platform, additional improvements to user experience, new dashboard content, and advanced critical event notifications.
While we continue to innovate, make sure to read the KuppingerCole report to learn more about the IGA market and the solutions that can help organizations control access, gain visibility, and fulfill compliance requirements.
Download the KuppingerCole Analysts 2024 Leadership Compass: Identity Governance and Administration
