Agenda
Our Gartner experts, who are at the top of their fields, helped attendees address their most critical challenges. These key topics kickstarted conversations around priorities and initiatives so that attendees could tackle what was most important to them.
This track explored how access management capabilities such as authorization, API access control and single sign-on have matured to support the latest demands of digital transformation.
This track provided the information you need to take an identity-first approach to security while enhancing the overall user experience.
This track provided information on ways to improve your IGA initiative by learning best practices and innovations such as IAM convergence and autonomous and predictive governance, all powered by identity analytics.
Privileged access management (PAM) principles are one of the most significant security approaches for enterprises, protecting secrets and sensitive accesses across the organization.
This track was essential for understanding how to establish trust in the identity of new and existing users and mitigate the risks of account takeover and other attacks through careful selection and implementation of modern toolsets.
Monday, 06 March, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT
Michael Kelley, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Access management tools are offering an array of increasingly converged technologies. This session will cover the progression and maturity of access management tools and how they will help you achieve identity first security strategies.
Monday, 06 March, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM GMT
Felix Gaehtgens, VP Analyst, Gartner
Authorization technology has been in a renaissance period, with many new technologies, vendors and specifications appearing within the last two years. This session shines a light on the current market, including open source initiatives, where they are used and where the state of the art lies with regards to authorization technology.
Monday, 06 March, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:15 PM GMT
Mary Ruddy, VP Analyst, Gartner
Customer identity and access management (CIAM) is key to enabling your digital transformation and the foundation of your customers' digital experiences. This session gives you an opportunity to ask questions about CIAM platform features, vendors' complementary tools and best practices. Attendees should come prepared to ask questions about IAM for external users.
Monday, 06 March, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM GMT
Abhyuday Data, Director Analyst, Gartner
Demand for customer IAM has increased, due to its importance in converging UX, security and privacy for high-assurance interactions. How is CIAM technology continuing to evolve to meet these new challenges? We will talk about what is available today, and what kinds of things can you expect to take advantage of in the near future.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM GMT
David Chase, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Organizations struggle with changes to authentication, authorization, architecture and migrating to new access management platforms. In this session, guidance and strategies to handling these changes will be discussed.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM GMT
Abhyuday Data, Director Analyst, Gartner
Access management tools are the key to ubiquitous application access, enabling any user to access any application, anytime and anywhere. Gartner has identified a five-step approach to create a modern, efficient access management strategy that serves the needs of all user segments. This session gives you an opportunity to ask questions about that approach for your broader access management strategy.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM GMT
Erik Wahlstrom, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
What modern identity protocol should you implement in your applications and services, such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, OPA, FIDO? How do you do it at scale? In this technical session we will define what protocol to use for what specific use case.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM GMT
David Chase, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Modern architectures and applications place additional demands on access management tools. This workshop will introduce access management evaluation criteria guidelines, and discuss what features you should look for and what vendors to consider for your next employee access management solution.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM GMT
Abhyuday Data, Director Analyst, Gartner
What is Customer IAM (CIAM)? What are the key considerations for an effective CIAM strategy? We will discuss recommended top practices around CIAM, how to take your CIAM strategy to the next level and how to plan for the best user experience to achieve your goals.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM GMT
Michael Kelley, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This session will present the Magic Quadrant and Critical Capabilities for the access management market.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM GMT
Paul Rabinovich, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Active Directory is a critical IT asset for an overwhelming majority of organizations. This session will guide you on how to apply current IAM best practices to Active Directory. Among other things, we'll talk about hybridization and cloud, topology optimization, group management, identity governance, privileged access management, MFA, and AD threat detection and response.
Monday, 06 March, 2023 / 09:30 AM - 10:15 AM GMT
Tina Nunno, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
As a leader, are you a predator or prey, and what should you aspire to be? Technology executives are more visible now than ever before, this can be both an opportunity and a challenge. This session will explore how being a wolf can make you a better leader for your team and a great asset for your organization. Before this session find out yours at Gartner.com/wolfcio and learn more about what your results mean during the keynote.
Monday, 06 March, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT
Homan Farahmand, VP Analyst, Gartner
Digital identity requirements and importance are growing, as organizations are migrating their infrastructure and apps to the cloud. Enterprises anticipate innovations to enable continuous, dynamic, and intelligent IAM controls, while bracing for emerging decentralized identity impact and potential Web 3 business model disruption. This session discusses key trends and IAM outlook in the coming years.
Monday, 06 March, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM GMT
Jo Ann Rosenberger, Distinguished VP, Advisory, Gartner
This session will demonstrate and guide IT and IAM leaders involved in the negotiation planning process how to incorporate ten “must know” tips, tactics and “tricks” into the negotiation plan to optimize pricing, discounts and contract terms. Attendees will receive ready-to-use checklists, templates, and worksheets for optimizing future negotiations with existing, new and emerging vendors.
Monday, 06 March, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM GMT
Rebecca Archambault, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
During this workshop, IAM leaders will learn the importance and steps required for defining a well-crafted IAM program. The session will include exercises to help leaders create their own IAM vision.
Monday, 06 March, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM GMT
James Hoover, Principal Analyst, Gartner
Security and risk leaders struggle to deliver demonstrable business value from their IAM investments. Maturity Assessment approaches hold promise for improving business value delivery, but realization of this improved business value is inconsistent. This session will outline Gartner's IT Score for IAM and practical steps for applying it effectively to increase business value delivery.
Monday, 06 March, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM GMT
Mary Ruddy, VP Analyst, Gartner
In a world where identity is the only perimeter, more effective identity and access management (IAM) is now an imperative. IAM must be deployed more cohesively as a composable, distributed, resilient identity fabric. This session will explain the 10 identity fabric principles that should guide IAM decisions.
Monday, 06 March, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM GMT
Felix Gaehtgens, VP Analyst, Gartner
This session covers why everyone speaks about how artificial intelligence might solve security and risk management challenges, but struggle when asked to provide a concrete example. It will show examples of what we call AI today.
Monday, 06 March, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:45 PM GMT
Henrique Teixeira, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Cloud infrastructure entitlement management plays an important role in identity security posture management, with identity threat detection and response adding protection mechanisms against ongoing attacks to the identity infrastructure. Ask me anything about how ITDR and IDSP can be combined to create identity immune systems.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM GMT
Rebecca Archambault, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The establishment and delivery of an IAM Program is vital to delivering Identity First security. Whether you are new to identity or delivering identity and access management currently, you need to understand and communicate the role that identity plays within your organization to enable your workforce, customers and business partners to deliver their strategic initiatives.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM GMT
Jo Ann Rosenberger, Distinguished VP, Advisory, Gartner
Inflationary times create added complexity when negotiating with vendors. Gartner's four-step approach to proactively plan for new and renewal deals can help assess the fairness of increases as well as use data points from economic indicators such as CPI and ECI to customize "should cost" models to use during vendor negotiations. This session will demonstrate these steps by walking through two case study scenarios.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM GMT
Mary Ruddy, VP Analyst, Gartner
Many organizations are reimplementing identity and access management. This session will show how organizations can use the principles of Identity-First Security to guide the prioritization and design of their best practice IAM reimplementations.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM GMT
David Chase, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
A chance to ask an analyst your questions on implementing identity first, zero trust, and ITDR (identity threat detection and response).
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM GMT
David Collinson, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Knowing what metrics matter to your IAM stakeholders is critical to prioritizing, developing and monitoring IAM features. Metrics identify the success of individual projects, and where attention and improvements must take place. To succeed, they must be terms that the stakeholders recognize and understand. They should also align with or influence other initiatives. This workshop will enable you to learn how to set proper expectations.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM GMT
Akif Khan, VP Analyst, Gartner
A typical digital user journey may involve a broad range of IAM tools from identity proofing to authentication to access management to fraud detection. Getting all of these instruments to play in harmony is an increasingly complex challenge. Organizations are buying or building orchestration layers to conduct the symphony. Learn how such orchestration can reduce complexity and improve UX.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM GMT
Rebecca Archambault, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Organizations understand the important role that identity plays in their cybersecurity program, however security and risk management leaders aren't clear on where to begin. For those who have a defined IAM program, their efforts often stall, limiting their ability to mature their IAM capabilities. Bring your questions to this session, where we can talk about initiating or enhancing your IAM program.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM GMT
Henrique Teixeira, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Conventional IAM and security prevention controls are not sufficient to protect your identity system itself from cyberattacks. Learn how to enhance your cyber attack preparedness with the emerging discipline of ITDR.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM GMT
James Hoover, Principal Analyst, Gartner
This Hype Cycle for Digital Identity emphasizes the maturation of innovations that enable and deliver digital identity services.
Monday, 06 March, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM GMT
David Collinson, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This is a session to introduce what IGA is and is not, and how it differs and interacts with access management tools. Ideal for individuals that are being asked to take on responsibilities in this area or for senior leaders to be given a high-level introduction in to these capabilities.
Monday, 06 March, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM GMT
Nat Krishnan, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Light alternatives to IGA suites can be used for reducing costs or to augment an existing IGA suite to add niche capabilities. This session will discuss whether light IGA tools can be considered as the primary IGA solution for an organization.
Monday, 06 March, 2023 / 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM GMT
Rebecca Archambault, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This workshop will help you by practically taking you through the stages of preparing the RFP for an identity governance and administration (IGA) product. Attendees will leave with a practical approach to a successful RFP.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM GMT
Nat Krishnan, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Identity governance and administration systems is one of the most expensive IAM components an organization will ever purchase. It is a foundational component of an IAM program. However, it is extremely complex and one of the costliest when considering the total cost of ownership. This session will cover IGA deployment methodology to ensure your project stays on time, within professional services budget and avoid lengthy overruns.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM GMT
Homan Farahmand, VP Analyst, Gartner
Policy-based authorization has become a focal point for developing the next generation of identity-centric access controls. However, the one-size authorization architecture doesn't fit all authorization use cases. In this session. we review key enterprise policy management requirements and runtime architecture patterns for cloud, API, applications, data & analytics, microservices and other common authorization use cases.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:30 PM GMT
Nat Krishnan, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This is an ask the expert session where you can ask any questions around IGA deployment — how to get started; common issues; how to keep the business engaged; reporting; and any other issues.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM GMT
David Collinson, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Whilst segregation of duty controls are key to preventing fraud, they can also be used very effectively in the security arena. This session will explore the changing scope and supporting technologies to prevent toxic combinations impacting your organization financially but perhaps more importantly also from a security perspective.
Monday, 06 March, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT
James Hoover, Principal Analyst, Gartner
This session will outline the current state and emerging trends in the market for privileged access management (PAM).
Monday, 06 March, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM GMT
Henrique Teixeira, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Preventive mechanisms offered by emerging technologies like cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) include security posture principles to handle misconfiguration, vulnerabilities, and general exposure of entitlements in cloud infrastructures. Hygiene and security posture is a must have complement to run time threat detection and response disciplines. Join this session to learn how CIEM is paving the way to smarter strategies for enabling identity fabric immunity.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM GMT
Abhyuday Data, Director Analyst, Gartner
Through a selection of relevant Gartner insights and complementary methodologies, we will provide insight into latest updates in the privileged access management market.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM GMT
Felix Gaehtgens, VP Analyst, Gartner
This breakout serves not just as an introduction but is also ideal for those who already have a PAM program and are looking to mature it. The following topics are covered: why is PAM such a crucial piece of any security program? How should you leverage PAM? How can you raise your security posture by using a just-in-time PAM and zero standing privileges approach?
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 03:45 PM - 04:30 PM GMT
Felix Gaehtgens, VP Analyst, Gartner
Privileged access is the prime cause of breaches, yet more people than ever require it for their work. Requirements for PAM are evolving rapidly to include hybrid-multicloud scenarios and machine identities. Bring your questions about trends and best practices to this session.
Monday, 06 March, 2023 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT
Ant Allan, VP Analyst, Gartner
To improve security and enhance UX, many organizations are already implementing various styles of passwordless authentication across a variety of use cases. This session will look to address the following questions. How can IAM leaders choose among the many passwordless approaches? Which approaches are most effective? Which approaches are feasible in which use cases? How do you deal with legacy applications? How can you craft a cohesive strategy across multiple use cases?
Monday, 06 March, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM GMT
Akif Khan, VP Analyst, Gartner
Obtaining confidence in a customer’s or employee's identity is the foundation of identity-first security. Identity and access management (IAM) leaders must understand the current state-of-the-art, balancing assurance needs with friction in the UX, while orchestrating multiple tools and becoming aware of strategic trends on the horizon.
Monday, 06 March, 2023 / 12:30 PM - 01:15 PM GMT
Erik Wahlstrom, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Come to this session prepared to ask questions about workload identities. How should identities, secrets, keys and certificates be discovered, managed and maintained for applications, services, containers and VMs in an hybrid and multicloud environment?
Monday, 06 March, 2023 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM GMT
Paul Rabinovich, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Like all security controls, MFA itself is vulnerable to attacks. Man in the middle, prompt bombing, SIM swaps, social engineering and session hijacking are a few examples of attacks against MFA implementations. In this session, we will discuss common threats and ways to counter them.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM GMT
Ant Allan, VP Analyst, Gartner
User authentication is a cornerstone of identity-first security, and digital identity for workforce and customers. Market hype about passwordless, risk-based and continuous authentication can be daunting. This session will help IAM leaders understand the value of authentication, the shift to continuous adaptive trust, and where this fits with zero trust, adaptive access and the identity fabric.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:45 PM GMT
Ant Allan, VP Analyst, Gartner
This interactive session enables attendees to ask the Gartner expert and learn from others about any authentication or adjacent topic. Topics covered include requirements definition, the pros and cons of different technologies, passwordless authentication trends, the shift towards continuous adaptive trust, synergies with identity proofing, user experience and life cycle management.
Tuesday, 07 March, 2023 / 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM GMT
Akif Khan, VP Analyst, Gartner
Account takeover (ATO) attacks keep IAM leaders up at night. Attackers are not breaking and entering, they are not exploiting vulnerabilities - they are simply using stolen credentials on login pages for corporate systems, online banking and more. In this session, the focus will be on how to build a layered defense of complementary capabilities to mitigate the risks of ATO attacks.