The Top Trends Shaping Identity and Access Management in 2025 – Geoff Cairns – ESW #400
In this interview, we feature some research from Geoff Cairns, an analyst at Forrester Research. This is a preview to the talk he'll be giving at Identiverse 2025 in a few months.
We won't have time to cover all the trends, but there are several here that I'm excited to discuss!
- Deepfake Detection Difficult
- Zero Trust Agentic AI
- Phishing resistant MFA adoption
- Identity Verification
- Machine Identity
- Decentralized Identity
- Post Quantum
- Shared Signals
Segment Resources:
- The Top Trends Shaping Identity And Access Management In 2025 - (Forrester subscription required)
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Guest
Geoff Cairns is a principal analyst at Forrester, advising security and risk professionals on identity and access management (IAM). His research focuses on workforce IAM, including topics such as multifactor authentication (MFA), privileged identity management, identity governance and lifecycle, and identity as a service (IDaaS). He guides clients on IAM technologies and services as well as associated integrations and operational processes to address the business and security needs of the evolving workforce environment.
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