KuppingerCole Analysts

KuppingerCole Analysts AG is an international, independent analyst organization offering technology research, neutral advice and events in Identity Management, Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence.

KuppingerCole Analysts is a technology podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 412 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts KuppingerCole Analysts, a technology show with 412 episodes published.

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  Analyst Chat #312: Is AI Killing IVIP Before It Even Matures?

  Aug 11, 202624 min

  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 Topics: ✅ IVIP revisited: still a set of capabilities, not a platform — and vendors are mostly relabeling ✅ Can AI make IVIP obsolete before it ever becomes a mature category? ✅ How AI is finally tackling IGA's oldest unsolved problem: application integration at scale ✅ Why IVIP falls short on action — spotting anomalies is not the same as acting on them ✅ IVIP, ITDR, and IGA convergence: does the category distinction even matter anymore? ✅ Strategic advice for IVIP vendors: observability, automation, and the path to relevance "The MVP can frequently be done well with AI doing it at scale, manageable, as a real solution and not a set of homegrown tools? That is a very different story." Martin Kuppinger on why AI changes everything for IVIP — and nothing at once. Don't miss the KuppingerCole Analysts Identity Fabric Impact Day on September 9th in Cologne 

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  Analyst Chat #311: Architecting Your Own Digital Sovereignty

  Aug 2, 202631 min

  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 about it. Key Topics: ✅ Why the "digital sovereignty" conversation has gone wrong — and what Alcatraz has to do with it ✅ The only correct definition of sovereignty: can you keep operating when a dependency disappears? ✅ Why sovereignty is just business continuity engineering — not a procurement decision ✅ How sovereign Europe really is today: the numbers are worse than you think ✅ Why "buy European" is a political preference, not a security strategy ✅ Decentralization, crypto agility, and distributed storage as practical sovereignty tools ️ "Sovereignty is not about who you're buying from, it's about what happens when you can no longer buy from them." Alexei Balaganski on why the European sovereignty debate is asking the wrong question entirely. "Nobody, not even the EU, should prescribe how to solve your sovereignty issues." A rare episode with almost no AI but possibly the most important conversation KuppingerCole Analysts has published this year.

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  Analyst Chat #310: AI Escaped the Sandbox - The OpenAI Hugging Face Hack (special episode)

  Jul 28, 202633 min

  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 wrong, and what should organizations do about it? Key Topics: ✅ What actually happened: two separate incidents dressed up as one dramatic story ✅ Why the sandbox failure was a containment and design problem — not an AI apocalypse ✅ Jonathan Care's core argument: the breach was credentials, not packets — you can't firewall your way out ✅ Non-human identity and agent identity as the real unsolved problem at the heart of the incident ✅ Secrets sprawl, overprivileged service accounts, and the absence of least privilege for AI agents ✅ Was it a containment failure, an identity failure, an observability failure, or a governance failure? "OpenAI had a pet tiger and the tiger escaped, Hugging Face was just walking down the street." Alexei Balaganski on why the most dramatic AI security story of the year was actually two separate failures. Four KuppingerCole Analysts experts, one incident, and the identity governance lessons every organization needs to hear.

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  Analyst Chat #309: Fabrics Deep Dive II - the Identity Fabric as the Blueprint

  Jul 27, 202627 min

  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 thinking every time, and how the fabric evolves to stay relevant in a world of constant buzzwords. Key Topics: ✅ How the Identity Fabric is used in practice: maturity assessments, gap analyses, roadmaps, and tool selection ✅ Why the right order always goes capabilities → services → tools — never the other way around ✅ What happens when tools are used for things they were never meant to do ✅ Why organizing teams around capabilities — not tools — is the future of IT operations ✅ The Identity Fabric built for 2040: long-term thinking in a fast-moving market ✅ How the fabric absorbs buzzwords like IVIP, ISPM, and ITDR — and why that proves the concept "Every second day someone comes up with a new buzzword, the Identity Fabric helps you strip it down to capabilities and ask: is there really something new here?" Martin Kuppinger on why structured thinking beats buzzword bingo. This is episode two of KuppingerCole Analysts' fabric mini-series, the Cybersecurity Fabric and AI Security Fabric episodes are coming next. Subscribe so you don't miss them.

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  Analyst Chat #308: Beyond SASE - What a Real Zero Trust Platform Looks Like

  Jul 20, 202643 min

  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 Platform. Key Topics: ✅ Why zero trust is a strategy, not a product — and what that means for procurement ✅ The four non-negotiable requirements for a real Zero Trust Platform ✅ What separates a genuine platform from a collection of tools with a zero trust label ✅ NHIs, AI agents, and data protection as the new frontiers of zero trust architecture ✅ Three critical questions every RFP for a ZTP should include "Stop looking for a Zero Trust Platform" - yes, really. Alexei Balaganski explains why that mindset shift is the most important thing a CISO can do before opening a single RFP. The KuppingerCole Analysts Zero Trust Platform Buyers Compass and Leadership Compass are both published: watch this episode first, then dive into the research.

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