November '07: Effectively Managing Identity Compliance

Identity Compliance – Some Assembly Required

Kevin Cunningham, President and Founder of SailPoint, gets into the holiday spirit early revealing some similarities between the "Christmas Eve-toy-assembly" rush and typical identity compliance deployments.  Read on »

Five Ways to More Effectively Manage Compliance

Here are five guidelines that will help your organization be more efficient and effective when it comes to achieving compliance and managing business risk.  Learn more »

Identity Management Readiness: Preparing Your Data for Successful Deployments

SailPoint recently introduced a new data cleansing and correlation tool designed to accelerate identity management initiatives.  Learn more »

Managing the Multiple Dimensions of Identity

Identity cubes transforming the technical identity data scattered across multiple enterprise systems providing a single, logical representation of each managed user.  Learn how »

"We see many organizations stymied by bad identity data in their enterprise identity management initiatives. Cleaning up bad data, filling in missing data and eliminating orphan accounts are critical prerequisites to successfully undertaking complex identity management projects. Moving past those tasks allows organizations to focus their efforts on matters that yield true business value like automating compliance and reducing risk."
Roberta J. Witty, research vice president, Gartner Inc. – November 7, 2007

"Today's enterprise faces a daunting range of IT risks – from security, business malfeasance and insider threats to business-critical IT service availability, performance and integrity issues. Regulatory requirements intended to curb these risks have also driven the pursuit of more effective IT governance. IT risk management has become the lynchpin of all these demands."
Scott Crawford, research director, Enterprise Management Associates – August 30, 2007

• "Compliance Pushing Identity Management in New Directions," Network World

  John Fontana of Network World discusses how compliance is shifting identity management’s focus from administration of users towards access control and authorization to meet regulatory mandates.  Read full article »

• Identity Intelligence Insider podcast series:

  Episode 6: Identity Insights from DIDW 2007 – a candid discussion of the buzz at this year's Digital Identity World Conference.  Listen »

  Episode 5: New IT Compliance Survey Finds Surprising Similarities across the IT and Audit Teams – an interview with Larry Ponemon from The Ponemon Institute  Listen »