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Identity Governance Buyer's Guide - 2nd Edition

Identity Governance Buyer's GuideContains tools to help you identify your priorities, conduct side-by-side product analysis and find a solution that suits your needs. Download the Guide »

Streamline Compliance

Streamline ComplianceLearn how SailPoint makes compliance more effective and sustainable.

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Access Request Manager Data SheetLearn how SailPoint keeps pace with access change.

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Get the Big PictureSee exactly how SailPoint IdentityIQ works.

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Align Access with Business

Align Access with BusinessLearn how SailPoint strengthens identity governance.

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Apply Best Practices

Apply Best PracticesLearn how to plan ahead for successful role management.

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Manage Identity Data

Manage Identity DataLearn how to improve visibility and transparency.

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Manage Compliance

Manage ComplianceLearn how Identity Governance helps meet compliance requirements.

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"By using roles to request, approve and certify user access privileges, BNSF will be able to simplify its user administration and compliance processes. SailPoint IdentityIQ will allow us to enforce and verify role-based access across our critical enterprise applications using a streamlined, automated approach."

Bart Boudreaux, Director, Technology Services, BNSF Railway

"SailPoint helps us define the connection between user access, financial control and intellectual property protection. Their risk-aware approach focuses on the relative risks associated with user access within our business."

Russ Finney, Vice President of U.S. Information Systems operations for Tokyo Electron, U.S. Holdings

"Businesses that are concerned with compliance mandates and ensuring the security and integrity of their IT systems cannot afford 12 to 18 month deployments. With IdentityIQ, organizations can gain immediate payback from automating key governance processes to better address business risk."

Kevin Cunningham, Co-Founder and President, SailPoint

"As a publicly-traded company and financial services provider, we are subject to a variety of regulations including FISMA, SOX, PCI, and SAS 70. To meet these requirements, we are standardizing and automating our compliance processes for identity management, so that we can centrally control who gets access to sensitive resources and maintain compliance as the organization changes over time. This centralized and automated approach allows us to proactively address risk and more efficiently maintain a compliant, secure environment."

Jerry Archer, Chief Security Officer, Sallie Mae

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Here you will find useful tools and documents to help you understand more about identity governance and the solutions that SailPoint is bringing to market.

White Papers

NEW!  Viewpoints: Provisioning Solutions - A Changing of the Guard
This paper takes a closer look at what's wrong with legacy provisioning technology and reveals how next-generation provisioning solutions offer a more strategic and sustainable approach to address today's stringent security and compliance demands.

NEW!  Best Practices: Meeting the Operational Requirements of Solvency II
This paper will provide a closer look at the implications of Solvency II for IT and security managers including the need to manage identity and access, as part of a successful compliance program.

A New Approach to Meeting NERC CIP Reliability Standards
This white paper discusses how to build a cost-effective, risk-based approach to NERC CIP compliance and outlines how SailPoint IdentityIQ helps to achieve "auditable compliance" without burdening the business with excessive costs.

Market Pulse Survey Report: Aligning Access with Business Policy
SailPoint's 2010 Market Pulse Survey on Identity Governance reveals the truth about the challenges and risks experienced by large companies as they struggle to verify that employee access to sensitive data aligns with business policy.

 Best Practices: Preparing for Model Audit Rule 2010
This paper explores the new Model Audit Rule requirements for implementing stronger internal controls over financial applications and data and how they will impact your identity management program.

 Viewpoints: From Provisioning to Identity Governance - Building a Strategic Platform for Compliance and Risk Management
Learn why now is the perfect time to re-assess your priorities and requirements to ensure you have the most reliable, cost-effective tool for improved transparency across compliance and risk management efforts.

 Best Practices: Managing Access Risk during Periods of High Churn
For any company considering a merger, acquisition or downsizing, preparing for the change is critical. During this time, it's wise to employ a proactive, risk-based approach to governing identity and information access, and to enforce it rigorously. This white paper outlines recommendations and practical steps for proactively securing access to information assets during times of change across large user populations.

Viewpoints: Identity Intelligence – Limiting Theft and Risks from Insiders
In this executive level paper, SailPoint's CEO and founder, Mark McClain reveals how identity intelligence can help your organization avoid falling victim to escalating insider threats.

Viewpoints: Limiting Fraud inside Financial Institutions with Identity Intelligence
This executive-level paper reveals how identity intelligence is helping financial institutions to minimize their risk. It explains how they are leveraging the identity intelligence to focus their attention and resources where they are needed most – all while keeping risk to a minimum.

Best Practices: What You Can Learn about Your Risk Posture from Identity and Access Data
Managing user access to sensitive applications and data should involve applying automated controls to the areas of greatest business risk. Unfortunately, far too many enterprises are using outdated, manual approaches that do not effectively address the five most common identity risks faced by most organizations. This paper reviews these identity risks and how enterprises can effectively improve their compliance and audit performance while reducing overall costs and offers some practical ways to get started.

Viewpoints: Identity Risk – Are Insiders Threatening Your Compliance Efforts?
In this paper, we discuss the barriers to successful identity compliance and the importance of focusing identity risk management efforts on the information assets that represent the most value – and potential liability – to the business.

Viewpoints: Role Management and Risk
This educational paper reviews how effective role management can provide the business context necessary for non-technical personnel to oversee and verify user access policy. It reviews three ways that role management helps organizations to manage information security risk and ultimately corporate risk.

Best Practices: Practical Role Management
This paper identifies common pitfalls on the road to role management and which best practices can pave the way to solving real business problems.

Effectively Managing Today's Compliance Challenges with Identity Governance
This paper examines the common regulatory requirements that companies face in order to manage information security risk, focusing on the key role played by identity governance in meeting those requirements. It provides recommendations on how to build a sustainable approach to compliance and reviews five guidelines for improving compliance efficiency and building risk management into the compliance process.

Data Sheets

NEW!  SailPoint IdentityIQ Product Overview
A high-level introduction to SailPoint IdentityIQ, a comprehensive identity governance solution that delivers risk-aware compliance management, integrated lifecycle management, identity intelligence, and user provisioning with a common framework for managing roles, risk and policy.

Compliance Manager Data Sheet
Provides a detailed look at the benefits, key capabilities and features for the compliance management component of SailPoint IdentityIQ offering automated access certifications and policy enforcement.

Lifecycle Manager Data Sheet
Outlines the innovative Lifecycle Manager component of SailPoint IdentityIQ which enables business users to request or change access privileges conveniently and streamline the front-end business processes of provisioning in a policy-controlled environment.

NEW!  Provisioning Engine Data Sheet
Details the flexible approach offered by SailPoint for speeding user access changes across target systems and resources with a more detailed look at the benefits, key capabilities and features for the "last mile" Provisioning Engine component of SailPoint IdentityIQ.

SailPoint IdentityIQ Integration with Oracle Identity Manager Data Sheet
Learn how SailPoint integrates with Oracle Identity Manager to extend beyond provisioning with identity governance for greater operational efficiencies and transparency.

SailPoint IdentityIQ Integration with Novell Identity Manager and Novell Sentinel Data Sheet
Learn how SailPoint integrates with Novell's identity and security technology to deliver an integrated solution for identity governance, risk management and compliance.

SailPoint IdentityIQ Integration with IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Data Sheet
Outlines the integrated approach that SailPoint and IBM offer to give organizations the visibility and control required in order to meet ever stringent compliance and governance requirements in today’s increasingly complex and dynamic world.

SailPoint IdentityIQ Integration with Sun Identity Manager Data Sheet
Learn how SailPoint integrates with Sun Identity Manager to supplement and enhance existing user provisioning capabilities with key governance and risk management features.

30-Day Identity Risk Assessment Program Overview
This brochure outlines SailPoint's Identity Risk Assessment which enables you to gain greater visibility into your identity data and risk - quickly and inexpensively. In just 30 days you'll get the information you need to resolve compliance gaps and security threats immediately.

Success Stories

NEW!  Energy Provider Improves Compliance with Identity Governance
A Fortune 300 energy provider facing compliance and audit requirements from both Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) wanted to improve compliance performance while streamlining and simplifying labor-intensive compliance processes. The company selected SailPoint IdentityIQ, to deliver integrated identity governance to its existing identity infrastructure and is now better equipped to easily and cost-efficiently identify and revoke inappropriate access, detect and remediate policy violations, and eliminate high-risk accounts.

 Protecting the Trust of Customers with Identity Governance
A leading provider of business software and financial management solutions wanted to proactively manage the risks associated with worker access to sensitive data, strengthen its access management practices, and improve IT productivity. Within 14 weeks, SailPoint enabled the customer to cleanse the data across its most critical applications, gain a centralized view into more than 1 million entitlements, automate the access certification process and streamline the remediation process for removing inappropriate access.

Strengthening Control over User Access
One of the largest U.S. commercial banking companies needed better visibility and stronger controls over user access privileges to meet the rigorous requirements of regulatory compliance, security and risk management. SailPoint IdentityIQ fully automated its access certification process and helped the customer to remove inappropriate access privileges that increase security risks.

Stepping up Compliance Efforts while Enhancing Security for Intellectual Property
TEL U.S. Holdings (Tokyo Electron) wanted to streamline its manually-driven compliance processes, improve security and gain better visibility into and control over user access to reduce the risk of intellectual property (IP) theft. Within just two months, SailPoint IdentityIQ enabled them to take a more proactive approach to compliance and improve their overall governance posture.

Streamlining User Access Reviews for More Effective, Sustainable Compliance
A Global 100 leader in insurance and financial services automated their access control review and reporting process with SailPoint. They dramatically increased the accuracy of user and entitlement data and are now better equipped to meet the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley.

Improving Compliance Performance and Risk Posture with SailPoint
One of the top 15 banks in the world launched a fully-automated access certification process across 29 SOX-relevant applications in just 60 days with SailPoint.

Risk Model Moves into Identity
This InfoWorld feature article explores expert recommendations of adopting a risk-based model to drive identity management, and explains how customers' goals are actually being realized. Hines provides insights from one such organization doing just that – financial services giant, ABN AMRO.

Special Reports

Market Pulse Survey Report: Aligning Access with Business Policy
SailPoint's 2010 Market Pulse Survey on Identity Governance reveals the truth about the challenges and risks experienced by large companies as they struggle to verify that employee access to sensitive data aligns with business policy.

2009 Market Pulse Survey Results
SailPoint's most recent Market Pulse Survey focused on how companies are approaching identity governance during the recession, with a particular focus on "insider threats. The survey reveals a consistent struggle companies face when managing user access controls for hundreds of thousands of employees, partners and customers. This presentation details the survey findings.

Market Pulse Survey Report:
Managing User Access in Turbulent Times

SailPoint's 2008 Market Pulse Survey on Identity Governance uncovers the economy's impact to security and compliance and reveals the top of mind identity and access governance issues for many large enterprise IT security managers.

EMA Advisory Note:
EMA's 2008 Survey of IT Governance, Risk and Compliance Management in the Real World

Scott Crawford, Research Director for EMA, summarizes his latest research findings from EMA's 2008 Survey of IT GRC Management in the Real World. He sheds light on how IT GRC is defined and understood by organizations today, what high-performers are doing as compared with low performers, and the factors that drive IT GRC effectiveness today.

Customer Success:
"Risk Model Moves into Identity", InfoWorld

This InfoWorld feature article explores expert recommendations of adopting a risk-based model to drive identity management, and explains how customers' goals are actually being realized. Hines provides insights from one such organization doing just that – financial services giant, ABN AMRO.

Ponemon Institute Study Part 1:
2007 IT & Security Professionals: Survey on Identity Compliance

This report provides an overview of the survey findings as well as detailed responses for all of the questions posed to over 600 information security professionals.

Ponemon Institute Study Part 2:
2007 Audit & Compliance Professionals: Survey on Identity Compliance

This follow-on study examining the views of 845 auditors and corporate compliance staff on the state of compliance practices that focus on ensuring proper access to systems and data.

ROI Tools

Automated Access Certification ROI Calculator
Answer just 8 questions and this ROI calculator will help you to quickly estimate how much money your organization can save by automating the access certification and attestation process.

Identity Intelligence Insider: SailPoint's Podcast Series

 Episode 21: Identity and Access Management's Growing Importance
Forrester Research Senior Analyst Andras Cser continues the discussion from Episode 20 with SailPoint and takes a look at the future of the identity and access management (IAM) market. He discusses which IAM technologies are becoming more strategic, and predicts where the market will evolve five years in the future.

 Episode 20: Why Enterprises Need More Roles
SailPoint speaks with Forrester Research Senior Analyst, Andras Cser, to discuss the growing importance of enterprise role management. Cser, a leading expert on identity management, explains why role management is becoming increasingly strategic to organizations as business users become more involved in identity governance, particularly during the recent economic turmoil. He also provides recommendations for companies considering an enterprise role management project.

 Episode 19: Meeting the Demand for Convenient Yet Controlled Access Today
Paul Trulove, Director of Product Marketing at SailPoint, talks with Mike Amadei, Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, about the continued challenges associated with managing changes to user access within today's large enterprise. From quickly and efficiently on-boarding new users, to managing access during job changes, organizations are clamoring for a new approach to an old problem. They evaluate why existing solutions aren't effectively addressing the problem and discuss what companies can do today to improve how they manage the access request and change process in their organization.

Episode 18: Managing the Tangled Web of User Access Risk during a Merger, Acquisition or Layoff
Today’s turbulent economy has led to a rise in activity around corporate mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, layoffs. SailPoint’s CEO, Mark McClain joins Terry Jost, CEO of Mycroft, for this timely and relevant podcast. They talk about the employee churn taking place in employee populations as a direct result of these rapid business transformations, and the potential risks they create. You’ll learn how these factors are affecting organizations’ IT and business risk posture as well as the important role of identity governance in these environments. And, you’ll gain practical guidance into how you can survive the toughest of times with a solid plan that takes you from the transaction to transition and beyond.

Episode 17: Means, Motive & Opportunity – The Perfect Storm for Insider Threats
SailPoint recently conducted a market-pulse survey on identity and access challenges during a recession which gave us a first glimpse into the economy's impact on security and compliance. In this podcast, Jackie Gilbert, VP Marketing and co-founder of SailPoint, talks with Paul Trulove, Director, Product Management at SailPoint about the survey findings and delves into the top-of-mind identity and access governance issues for 2009. They discuss how organizations must improve how they are managing access to critical IT resources within their organizations in order to avoid security breaches, failed audits and non-compliance. They also offer some practical advice to help you manage access and improve your risk posture today.

Episode 16: Practical Guidance for Successful Enterprise Role Management
Enterprise role management is quickly becoming a critical technology for enabling organizations to enforce regulatory policies and to audit the effectiveness of user access control. Unfortunately, complexity and marketplace confusion impedes companies in their search for an approach that delivers practical and timely results. SailPoint's VP of marketing and co-founder, Jackie Gilbert, SailPoint's talks with Debbie Cuadros of Simeio Solutions about the challenges that role management can address, and gets some practical guidance for defining the project scope and quickly achieving tangible benefits with roles.

Episode 15: Aggregating User Security Data to Prevent Fraud
Mark McClain, SailPoint's CEO and founder, was recently interviewed by Jason Meserve, a reporter with Network World for the Network World Panorama Podcast series. They discuss how identity management can be a challenge when business people and IT don't collaborate on who has permissions to do what on a given system. This can lead to fraud and internal threats to data systems. Mark talks about how to aggregate user login information and share in a non-technical way with business leaders to ensure greater system security.

Episode 14: Tackling Identity Compliance and Risk Challenges in a Down Economy
Mark McClain, CEO and Founder of SailPoint, joins Mike Amadei, Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers for a follow-up to a recent panel discussion they participated in during the Digital ID World Conference in Anaheim, CA. They cover some of the business drivers for identity management – including, of course, compliance – but also take a look at the impact of the recent economic conditions and the economic downturn. They explain how they're seeing identity governance step up to address risk and protect sensitive data from insiders, sabotage and security breaches.

Episode 13: Identity Governance Satisfies Compliance, Personnel Management and Security Demands
Dana Gardner principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, talks about a serious and potentially catastrophic set of issues for many companies concerning security and risk aversion around personnel, applications, and IT systems. He joins SailPoint's own, Mark McClain and Jackie Gilbert, as they review how companies can more properly manage identity information and access rules for the users of applications and systems. And, they provide some insights into a new class of solutions to this growing problem.

Episode 12: Reality Check – A Real-World Discussion of IT GRC and Managing Risk
IT GRC has become a loaded term, high on expectations but far too often short on specifics. In this podcast, Scott Crawford, Research Director for EMA, talks about his latest research finding from EMA's 2008 Survey of IT GRC Management in the Real World. He sheds light on how IT GRC is defined and understood by organizations today, what high-performers are doing to be effective, and the crucial role that identity and access management play in this process

Episode 11: An Open Call for Role Interoperability Standards
Jackie Gilbert, VP of Marketing and Founder, interviews Darran Rolls, CTO for SailPoint, on his call for the identity development community to collaborate and develop a new standard for role interoperability and exchange. He explains why this is needed and outlines a couple of use cases for open role exchange. Learn more at www.openroleexchange.org.

Episode 10: The Globalization of Identity Management
Jackie Gilbert speaks with Kevin Cunningham, SailPoint President, and Darran Rolls, CTO, about their recent visit to Europe and participation in the 2nd European Identity Conference with KuppingerCole. They share thoughts on the similarities and differences they found between the US and European identity management markets today.

 Episode 9: Book Review – IT Risk: Turning Business Threats into Competitive Advantage
Join SailPoint's co-founder and VP of Marketing, Jackie Gilbert, and Paul Trulove, SailPoint's Director of Product Marketing, for a review of the book, IT Risk: Turning Business Threats into Competitive Advantage, written by George Westerman and Richard Hunter. Summarizing smart insights and key takeaways from their reading, they highlight some of the big ideas and recommendations offered by the authors and how these are relevant to the IT trends and challenges organizations are dealing with today. Finally, they offer some practical steps for moving towards a more risk-aware culture to effectively tackle IT risk.

Episode 8: Avoiding a Billion Dollar Blind Spot: What Organizations Can Learn about Their Risk Posture from Identity and Access Data
Mark McClain, CEO and founder of SailPoint Technologies, speaks to Scott Crawford, Research Director and Security & Risk Management Practice Manager at Enterprise Management Associates, about the recent $7.2B Société Générale loss – the largest known banking fraud in history – and consider the role that access control failures may have played. Following an examination of the case, Crawford and McClain outline five basic issues and related exposures that can contribute to a control failure and offer practical guidance for preventing similar incidents.

Episode 7: The Role of Roles in Compliance
Jackie Gilbert, VP of Marketing and Founder, interviews Darran Rolls, CTO for SailPoint, on the subject of role-based access control (RBAC), and its relevance to identity management and compliance projects. Darran tackles the controversial topic concerning the difference in roles for provisioning and roles for compliance and where they can, ultimately, come together.

Episode 6: Identity Insights from DIDW 2007
Jackie Gilbert, Founder and VP of Marketing for SailPoint, joins Darran Rolls, former chair of the OASIS Provisioning Services technical committee, to take a quick look at the recurring themes from this year's Digital Identity World Conference. They review key observations from conversations on the show floor and from the podium including the most pressing identity compliance challenges, emerging technologies, standards and areas ripe for convergence.

Episode 5: New IT Compliance Survey Finds Surprising Similarities across the IT and Audit Teams
When it comes to IT compliance, both IT staff and audit/compliance personnel can agree on something. That is, what's wrong with IT compliance today and what's needed to improve the situation. Larry Ponemon joins SailPoint Founder and VP of Marketing, Jackie Gilbert, to review the latest survey findings.

Episode 4: Identity Audit: A New Approach to a New Challenge
In this encore presentation from Burton Catalyst 2007, Mark McClain offers his perspective on a new generation of identity management solutions emerging in an area some call Identity Audit. He'll discuss the new challenges organizations are facing, what's required and, specifically, how identity audit differs from existing identity management solutions in addressing these problems. For best presentation, we recommend the version containing slides and audio.
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Episode 3: Managing Risk – Is Provisioning Enough?
A candid conversation with Kevin Cunningham, President and Founder of SailPoint, about the emerging shift in identity management priorities related to the growing issues of governance and compliance. Hear why existing provisioning and role management solutions fall short of providing the necessary visibility and control, and how a new breed of solutions is emerging to address identity risk in the context of strategic business and IT processes.

Episode 2: Larry Ponemon Reveals Findings of Identity Compliance Study
We take a closer look at the results of a recent survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute. The goal of the study was to better understand how organizations are ensuring correct identity and access management (IAM) rights within their enterprises.

Episode 1: The Identity Intelligence Advantage
Mark McClain, CEO and Founder of SailPoint, talks about the evolution of identity management, the issues associated with identity governance, risk and compliance and how identity intelligence effectively addresses the challenges.

Archived Webinars

On-Demand Webcast: Rethinking Provisioning in 2010 and Beyond
Burton Group VP, Lori Rowland, joins SailPoint's Kevin Cunningham to discuss the new business requirements for identity management, and how they affect the provisioning landscape. Rowland offers suggestions on how companies can leverage existing identity and access governance technologies – in tandem with provisioning – to derive immediate value from their technology deployments. You’ll get a roadmap to address your immediate provisioning challenges – without starting from scratch; and, you’ll hear how organizations can "break the cycle" of failed provisioning deployments with next generation solutions.

On-Demand Webcast: Achieve "Auditable Compliance" with NERC CIP Standards
Beginning July 1st, all energy producers and distributors in the U.S. and Canada must be auditably compliant with the NERC CIP reliability standards. But what exactly does that mean, especially if you have taken steps to address many of the requirements already? During this webinar, Michael Rasmussen of Corporate Integrity joins SailPoint's Jackie Gilbert to review the latest NERC CIP requirements, what's needed and the critical role identity governance plays in achieving the next level of compliance.

On-Demand Webcast: Addressing the New Model Audit Rule 2010
Effective January 1, 2010, many insurers will be required to address the new Model Audit Rule (MAR). During this webinar, Michael Rasmussen of Corporate Integrity, reviews the identity-related controls associated with the 2010 MAR requirements, how these affect managing access to key financial applications and data, and how to be prepared for audits and executive reporting needs. He highlights best practices from companies undergoing SOX audits that serve as a baseline for achieving MAR compliance and discusses how to build a sustainable, risk-based approach to MAR compliance using identity governance technology.

On-Demand Webcast: Driving Sustainable & Cost Effective Assessments of User Access
The cost of periodic audits of user access is becoming a big drain on scarce company resources. As organizations remain focused on minimizing costs, the quality and coverage of these audits have been impacted as audit teams try to manage the same – or in some cases – additional workload with smaller teams. Unfortunately, without automated and sustainable processes and tools in place, organizations will continue to struggle to cost-effectively manage risk. In this live webinar, audit and identity management professionals from PricewaterhouseCoopers and SailPoint, will introduce a proven approach that reduces assessment costs using a set of tools and accelerators to more effectively and efficiently identify gaps in identity governance and compliance. And, you'll learn how to improve audit performance and drive sustainable, compliant processes for managing user access.

On-Demand Webcast: Improving Access Certifications for Enhanced Security and Lower Costs
With increasing regulatory requirements and constant employee churn, having a systematic access certification process in place becomes critical. The process of collecting entitlement data across applications and systems and correlating it with users is complex and time-consuming for IT teams. For many organizations, access certifications are also prone to human error and are often inaccurate. With no repeatable process in place, the overall certification process becomes inconsistent, unreliable and difficult to manage. In this webinar, identity management professionals from PricewaterhouseCoopers and SailPoint will offer lessons learned from real-world deployments and show you how you can quickly improve the operational efficiency and accuracy of your certification process.

On-Demand Webcast: Minimizing Business Risk during a Merger, Acquisition or Divestiture
Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures are prevalent in today’s business climate. IT teams are trying to manage dynamic user populations requiring them to quickly and effectively add, manage or remove access privileges to critical systems and information for hundreds or even thousands of individuals at a time. During this webinar, seasoned identity management executives from SailPoint and Mycroft will offer practical guidance for building a winning plan that effectively manages access risk during a merger, acquisition or divestiture. You’ll also learn about some innovative deployment scenarios that lessen the burden on IT staff and dwindling budgets.

On-Demand Webcast: Case Study: Aligning IT with Business for More Effective Access Control
With inefficient, manual processes and frustrated business managers who were unable to decipher cryptic IT-oriented entitlement reports, a global insurance and financial services leader was struggling to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley 404 requirements. Join SailPoint's Jackie Gilbert and Jim Guinn of Partners Consulting to learn how this successful identity governance project allowed the company to automate the access control review and reporting process. With SailPoint, the customer dramatically increased the accuracy of user and entitlement data and reduced the time spent on access certifications from months to days.

On-Demand Webcast: Case Study: Improving SOX Compliance in 60 Days across 29 Applications
One of the top 15 banks in the world is working with SailPoint to improve its compliance performance and overall risk posture. SailPoint delivered with an identity governance solution and within 60 days, the bank had launched a fully-automated access certification process across 29 SOX-relevant applications. The deployment included cleansing and centralizing identity data for over 25,000 users. This webinar will provide an overview of the customer's challenges, business requirements and deployment process. It'll reveal the tangible benefits realized with SailPoint IdentityIQ.

On-Demand Webcast: Five Identity Risks You Need to Know About
Headline-grabbing incidents involving identity and access control failures have escalated in frequency and impact in recent years, raising serious questions about the state of governance and risk management in the world's largest enterprises. It's clear that identity and access blind spots can lead to significant financial losses and risk to the business. This webinar highlights five common access and IT control exposures that can lead to business losses and offers strategies for employing identity intelligence to strengthen IT controls and effectively manage risk.

On-Demand Webcast: Managing What Matters: Taking a Risk-based Approach to Identity Governance
You can't manage what you can't measure. This applies to access to sensitive data. On average, 35% of employees have more access than needed leaving organizations vulnerable to security breaches, fines for non-compliance and failed audits. This webinar will show you how you can identify high-risk user populations, segment the entire user population, and manage to the rule of least-privileged access. You'll learn how to effectively attack inappropriate access and minimize exposure with a more sustainable approach to identity governance.

On-Demand Webcast: What's Identity Got to Do with GRC?
The phrase GRC is creating quite a stir with industry pundits engaging in lively debates of its value, while IT and security managers remain confused by its all-encompassing nature. By adding Identity to the GRC mix, it's likely to get even more complex. If you're like most, you simply want practical solutions that can deliver tangible results. This webinar will define this emerging category and provide simple examples of how identity governance can actually solve real challenges today.

On-Demand Webcast: The Role of Roles in Compliance
Learn how to adopt a pragmatic strategy that will get you on track for successful role lifecycle management.

On-Demand Webcast: The ROI of Automating Identity Compliance
Learn how to calculate the costs of your current compliance efforts and learn how you can not only reduce those costs but also establish repeatable practices for a more consistent, auditable, reliable and easier to manage certification effort.

On-Demand Webcast: Managing Compliance through a Unified Effort
What if there was a way to effectively engage the business in identity and access compliance initiatives and to actually transform identity compliance into business advantage? There is. Attend this on-demand, one-hour event featuring Andras Cser, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research, and Mark McClain, CEO and Founder, SailPoint as they discuss this all-too-familiar topic.