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Andras Cser

Andras Cser
Principal Analyst

Research Coverage

Authentication, Authorization, & Audit, Enterprise Single Sign-On, Entitlement Management, Financial Services, Fraud Management, Governance, Risk, & Compliance, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Identity & Access Management, Infrastructure Security, Mobile Services, Passwords, Professional Services, Security & Risk, Telecommunications Services, User Account Provisioning, Web Single Sign-On

Research Focus

Andras serves Security & Risk professionals. He is a leading expert on identity management, access management, user account provisioning, entitlement management, federation, privileged identity management, and role design and management. Andras also covers enterprise fraud management, which has many synergies with identity and access management when an organization needs to protect against risk and wants to manage fraud appropriately. Andras helps clients develop enterprise strategy for creating business value through identity management.

His research focuses on strategy, cost-benefit analysis, architecture, performance and scalability of identity and access management and provisioning solutions, enterprise fraud management solutions, role-based access control (RBAC), as well as maintenance and distributed intranet and Internet identity systems. He maintains an interest in evaluating skill sets and core competencies of professional service providers in this space.

Previous Work Experience

Prior to joining Forrester, Andras was a security architect with CA Technical Services through the Netegrity acquisition. Andras designed the architecture and led the implementation of Fortune 500 companies' identity and access management and provisioning solutions. Previously, Andras managed business process re-engineering projects.

Education

Andras holds an M.B.A. degree from Technical University of Budapest and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK and an M. Sc. in computer science and electrical engineering from Technical University of Budapest.

Latest Research

Planned Research

External Web Site Authentication March 2012
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Forrester Wave: Enterprise Fraud Management August 2012
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Determine The Business Impact Of An Effective Identity Strategy September 2012
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Build Your Identity and Access Management Strategy April 2012
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TechRadar Identity And Access Management October 2012
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Did You Know?

Andras is an avid runner and skier. He loves music, concerts, and reading.

Languages Spoken

English, Hungarian, German


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Recent Media Citations
CSO, "Password Management Systems: How To Compare And Use Them," June 22, 2011
SearchSecurity "Identity And Access Management Concepts And Predictions To Watch In 2011" Mar 8,2011