July '09: Tales from the Trenches: Sharing Identity Governance Best Practices

Tales from the Trenches: Sharing Identity Governance Best Practices

Today, you want solutions that address security and compliance challenges amidst constrained resources, tight budgets and increasing scrutiny. Kevin Cunningham, SailPoint's President and Co-Founder, sits down to share some important lessons we've learned from the trenches with focusing on the integration of security and compliance efforts and finding those "quick wins."  Read on »

Gaining Visibility and Control with Identity Governance: A Guide to Getting Started

This Computer Technology Review article written by SailPoint's founder, Jackie Gilbert, offers guidance for getting started with an identity governance project including prioritizing your issues, identifying key objectives and what to look for when evaluating viable solutions.  Read full article »

Rethinking Provisioning? Build a Strategic Platform for Compliance & Risk

Are you facing a serious inflection point in how you manage and prioritize identity management initiatives? With governance and compliance requirements growing ever more demanding, your identity management requirements have likely evolved. Download our latest white paper and learn why now is the perfect time to re-assess priorities and evaluate your options to ensure you have the right tool for the job.  Download the paper »

Happy 10th Birthday Identity Management

In 1999, the term "identity management" was not even in our lexicon – and in fact vendors and analyst firms spent a lot of time and energy debating what to call the emerging market. In a recent blog entry on Identity Quotient, SailPoint's Kevin Cunningham reflects on how the IdM market has changed over the last 10 years.  Read the blog article »

Burton Group: Access and Identity Governance: Leading to Transparency and Visibility

In this July 2009 research report, Burton Group's Vice President and Service Director Gerry Gebel explores an emerging access and identity governance layer that provides maturing identity management product capabilities. According to Gebel, "Many organizations, unfortunately, still do not possess an accurate or complete view of access or identity controls across their environments. One of the biggest benefits of access and identity governance tools is the ability to reach across the application portfolio in an organization and to dig up the application entitlements within these silos. A broad and deep perspective becomes available for a variety of analysis, reporting, or business decision support functions."
Read SailPoint's take on the report »

News

• Security Slideshow: Managing Identity Risk During Mergers or Downsizing
  by Mark McClain, CIO Insight
• SailPoint Expands European Presence
  Austin Startup
• Demand for Identity Governance Continues as SailPoint Grows Customer Base and Expands into New Verticals
  Press Release
• SailPoint Offers Identity Risk Assessment
  by Nathan Conz, Bank Systems & Technology

Events

• On-demand Webinar: Do Better with Less: Driving Sustainable & Cost Effective Assessments of User Access
  SailPoint and PricewaterhouseCoopers present how a proven approach can reduce assessment costs and more effectively identify gaps in identity governance and compliance. You'll walk away with a better plan for improving user access audit performance with more sustainable, compliant processes.
• Identity 2009
  October 6 – 8, 2009 in The Hague, Netherlands
• CSI 2009
  October 24 – 30, 2009 in Washington D.C.
• Gartner Identity and Access Management Summit
  November 9 – 11, 2009 in San Diego, CA