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IVIP, Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platform, was one of the hottest acronyms to emerge from the identity market in 2025. But almost a year on, has it delivered on its promise? And more importantly, could AI already be making it obsolete before it even matures? In this episode, Matthias and Martin Kuppinger pick up where they left off and ask the hard questions about IVIP's future. Key…
Digital sovereignty is one of the most talked-about topics in European tech policy right now and according to Alexei Balaganski, most of the conversation is going in completely the wrong direction. In this episode, Matthias sits down with Alexei to challenge the assumptions behind the sovereignty debate, redefine what the term actually means, and lay out what organizations should really be doing…
When an OpenAI test model escaped its sandbox and attacked Hugging Face's production infrastructure, headlines called it a Skynet moment. But was it? In this special flash news episode, Matthias Reinwarth brings together four KuppingerCole Analysts experts - Alexei Balaganski, Jonathan Care, John Tolbert, and Martin Kuppinger - to cut through the noise and ask the real question: what actually went…
The Identity Fabric isn't just a concept, it's a working tool that KuppingerCole Analysts advisors use every day with clients. In this second episode of the fabric mini-series, Matthias sits down with Martin Kuppinger and Phillip Messerschmidt to explore how the Identity Fabric and Reference Architecture are applied in real client engagements, why capability-based thinking beats tool-centric…
Zero trust has a label problem. After more than a decade, the term has been stretched, diluted, and attached to products that don't come close to delivering what zero trust actually promises. In this episode, Matthias sits down with Alexei Balaganski, lead analyst at KuppingerCole Analysts, to share the findings from six months of research and reveal which vendors actually built a real Zero Trust…
Seven years ago, KuppingerCole Analysts introduced the Identity Fabric concept and it has shaped how organizations structure identity management ever since. In this episode, Matthias sits down with Martin Kuppinger, co-founder and distinguished analyst at KuppingerCole Analysts, to revisit the origins of the Fabric paradigm, explain why it still holds today, and preview where it's headed next into…
Build or buy, it sounds like a simple question, but for most organizations, it's one of the most consequential and poorly structured decisions they make. In this episode, Matthias sits down with analyst and advisor Phillip Messerschmidt, who turned his hands-on advisory experience into a structured framework for getting the make-or-buy decision right every time. Key Topics: ✅ Why "we can build it…
Alert overload, 24/7 coverage gaps, and human threat actors who never stop - the SOC has problems that traditional SOAR and rule-based systems simply can't solve. In this sponsored videocast, KuppingerCole analyst Matthew Gardiner and Rick Bosworth, Head of Product Marketing at Torq, dig into the findings of KuppingerCole's Emerging AI SOC Leadership Compass and explore what it actually takes to…
IGA is often dismissed as a mature, stable market but that couldn't be further from the truth. In this episode, Matthias sits down with Nitish Deshpande, to explore how identity governance and administration is being reshaped by NHIs, AI-driven intelligence, deployment sovereignty, and a wave of challenger vendors. Key Topics: ✅ How IGA has evolved from static, siloed tools to integrated,…
Four weeks after EIC 2026 in Berlin, Matthias Reinwarth and Phillip Messerschmidt sit down to reflect on what the European Identity and Cloud Conference revealed about the state of identity and access management and what it means for the year ahead. Spoiler: agentic AI dominated, but it wasn't the only story. Key Topics: ✅ Agentic AI as a new class of insider threat - autonomous,…
