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Senior Analyst

Warwick Ashford

Warwick Ashford is a Senior Analyst who researches cybersecurity and identity-related topics, including emerging technologies and trends. He has been writing IT news and analysis as a journalist and editor since 2003, specialising in cybersecurity and privacy since 2012. Warwick has also worked as a freelance radio producer and broadcast journalist, writing and presenting news bulletins on national radio for the South African Broadcasting Corporation.

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Latest research

Leadership Brief
Managing RDP Security Risks to Block Ransomware Attacks
August 30, 2022
Remote working is becoming widespread for social and economic reasons, and one of the key enablers is the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). However, RDP is one of the most popular initial cyber-attack vectors, which is all too often overlooked. This leadership brief details the security risks…
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Market Compass
Security Operations Center as a Service (SOCaaS)
April 28, 2022
The KuppingerCole Market Compass provides an overview of the product or service offerings in a certain market segment. This Market Compass covers the Security Operations Center-as-a-Service (SOCaaS) market that continues to develop in response to demand for security monitoring, analysis,…
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Buyer's Compass
Security Operations Center as a Service (SOCaaS)
March 24, 2022
The Security Operations Center-as-a-Service (SOCaaS) market continues to develop in response to demand for security monitoring, analysis, detection, response, and improvement recommendations either instead of or as a supplement to permanent on-premises SOCs. This KuppingerCole Buyer's…
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Advisory Note
Implementing SASE
December 09, 2021
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architectures promise to prevent multiple types of cyber-attacks, but deciding whether SASE is right for your organization will require understanding whether SASE is a fit for your use cases in IT. This Advisory Note looks at the definition and promise of…
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Buyer's Compass
IT Service Management
April 13, 2021
IT Service Management (ITSM) refers to comprehensive solutions that support IT management capabilities to help organizations to optimize the design, delivery, support, use and governance of IT. This KuppingerCole Buyer's Compass will provide you with questions to ask vendors, criteria to…
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Leadership Compass
IT Service Management
March 26, 2021
This report provides an overview of the market for IT Service Management (ITSM) and provides you with a compass to help you to find the solution that best meets your needs. We examine the market segment, vendor service functionality, relative market share, and innovative approaches to…
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Latest blog posts

Blog
Gear Up for the Future with Decentralized Identity
January 25, 2023
In the digital era, business would greatly benefit from having increased identity assurance levels, be able to interact securely with partners, suppliers, consumers, and customers, and be able to reduce the administrative load during onboarding or ongoing verification of credentials. One…
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Blog
IGA, the key to security and compliance
November 29, 2022
Securing data and complying with the growing number of associated local, regional, and international regulations are two of the biggest challenges facing most modern organizations as they become increasingly reliant on complex IT environments. Key to achieving both data security and…
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Blog
Reducing Risk Through Effective Access Management
November 22, 2022
Business is increasingly reliant on IT, from critical line-of-business applications, productivity and collaboration applications to e-commerce, and online customer services. In the modern world, it is more important than ever to ensure that the right people have access to the right systems…
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Blog
The Evolving Role of the CISO
November 15, 2022
The role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has long been a topic for debate. Almost ever since the role first emerged as organizations saw the need to focus on information security, there has been discussion about the how role could or should evolve. With information…
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Blog
Cyber Resilience
November 08, 2022
In the post-pandemic world, most people understand the concept of resiliency, which refers to the capacity to recover quickly from some form of adversity - be that Covid-19 infection, cyber-attack, natural disaster, geo-political tensions, and even cyber and kinetic conflict. Business…
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Blog
Passwordless Authentication
October 25, 2022
Passwords have not been fit for purpose for a long time. They are too easy to guess, crack, discover, and steal. Passwords are also costly and time consuming to manage, and password reuse is a major problem. However, after talking about getting rid of passwords for years, it is beginning to…
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Latest videos

Analyst Chat
Analyst Chat #123: Market Compass - Security Operations Center as a Service
May 02, 2022
SOCaaS (Security Operations Center as a Service) is a growing trend in cybersecurity, where core security functions are uniformly delivered to enterprises from the cloud. Warwick Ashford explored this in a recently published Market Compass and provides an overview of his findings.
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Analyst Chat
Analyst Chat #92: How the Cybersecurity Market Is Evolving
September 06, 2021
Cybersecurity is one of the areas where virtually every business will need to invest because of ever-growing cyber risks and ever-tightening regulations, and in the post-Covid era, the cybsersecurity market continues to evolve and grow, having gained even greater importance. Warwick Ashford…
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Speaker Spotlight
EIC Speaker Spotlight: Gerald Horst
July 20, 2021
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Analyst Chat
Analyst Chat #62: The SOCaaS Market Segment - A First Look
February 08, 2021
The Security Operations Center-as-a-Service (SOCaaS) market has emerged and continues to develop in response to demand for security monitoring, analysis, detection, response, and improvement recommendations either instead of or as a supplement to permanent on-premises SOCs. KuppingerCole…
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Analyst Chat
Analyst Chat #46: Business Resilience Management Part II
September 21, 2020
Warwick Ashford and Matthias Reinwarth talk about business resilience again, focusing on cyber supply chain risk management.
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Analyst Chat
Analyst Chat #44: Business Resilience Management
September 07, 2020
Warwick Ashford and Matthias Reinwarth discuss the prerequisites and challenges of making a business able to adapt quickly to risks and disruptions.  
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