When on briefings and inquiry workshops there are often emerging themes that start to spring up repeatedly. Perhaps every few months, perhaps under different projects, using different terms and stories and perhaps from unexpected people or teams.

There has been one theme over the past 12 months or so that is difficult to ignore: not only how identity based security has left-shifted into the thinking of information leaders to being a first-class citizen in the technology arsenal, but how identity is moving into a new territory. The territory of autonomy.

A long read post investigating the evolution of decoupled authorization platforms – including use case and capability analysis and brief vendor review including Axiomatics, PlainID, Styra and Scaled Access.

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An introduction to authorization startup Aserto.
What is driving the demand for new authorization models, software vendors and emerging authorization design patterns? This discusses previous failures of RBAC and XACML as well as modern architecture patterns such as identity centricity and the business mesh.

I recently ran another of my highly scientific industry polls - via LinkedIn to get a feel for this years spending patterns as they pertain to some emerging identity and access management technology areas. I have been tracking four emerging areas over the past 8 months or so, including Passwordless Authentication (where The Cyber Hut released a 61 page buyer guide last year), Cloud Identity/Infrastructure Entitlements Management, Decoupled Authorization and Identity Threat Detection and Response.

All four areas have had significant venture capitalist funding over the past 36 months and the use cases and capabilities of each have started to stabilise to a point where buy side procurement and integration is becoming consistent and vendors are identifying their competitive go to market narratives.

So my poll was essentially asking, which of these areas would a buy-side practitioner look to invest in during 2022?

Vendor introduction report covering oort.io - an emerging vendor in the Identity Threat Detection and Response sector.
A few interesting items to hit The Cyber Hut intelligence inboxes over the past couple of weeks. Funding Roundup: Antimatter and Skiff Skiff a privacy enablement startup focused on the end-to-end encrypted workspace just received a $10.5 million Series A, lead by Sequoia. What do they do? They are focused on creating a completely private […]

An independent vendor assessment of Axiomatics, covering Company Key Facts, Funding, Case Studies, Technology Key Facts, Technology Review and Strengths Analysis.

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A review of authorization related features added to the Auth0 platform between 2019 and 2022.

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An overview of the authorization related features added by Okta between 2019 and 2022

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