Is there a bounty on privacy? That’s the question we’re exploring following SailPoint CMO Juliette Rizkallah’s latest Forbes article on the rising use of smart technology in our home. From Wi-Fi-connected baby monitors, home security systems and even Alexa—our home and office environments have changed quite a bit from dial-up and corded telephones. Working in identity management definitely keeps your...

Did you know only 11% of cybersecurity specialists are women? That is an astonishingly low number if you think about every job that encompasses the information security workforce. Well, have no fear, the UK-based National Cyber Security Centre hopes to change that statistic and move the needle with a competition. According to BBC News, girls in the UK are testing...

Some people collect snow globes. Others collect trophies. And some collect data breaches. All eyes are focused on the big collection of 2.2 billion unique usernames and passwords that was recently discovered making its way around the internet. We often look at these major breaches in retrospect and wonder how we could have prevented them. But now, thanks to the continued practice...

Someday, we may start seeing cybersecurity news headlines that say “least amount of breaches ever” and “ people are using the most secure passwords ever,” but today is not that day. We learned this week that Australia saw record breaking breach numbers the last quarter of 2018. Not only that, but they found that compromised user credentials were a primary cause,...

Love may have been in the air this week, but hackers managed to find a way to hack that this Valentine's Day. In perhaps the most perfectly-timed cyberattack, OKCupid was found to have been hit with a credential stuffing attack. And then just a couple of days later, a major flaw was found in their Android app that would allow...

There is a philosophy in security that has quickly taken off: zero trust. Our Senior Identity Strategist David Lee shared the whys and the hows of what zero trust means in the context of identity with Security Today. The moral of the story is this: zero trust is simply a new way of life in the security world, and is...

Austin is the place SailPoint calls home, but this week there were some interesting conversations to be had about the cybersecurity industry in our hometown. Our CMO Juliette Rizkallah has worked in high tech and IT over the past 20 years, and she shared her insights on how Austin is coming up in the cybersecurity scene. In reality, cybersecurity is...

If you could pick one word to predict the next year in identity, what would it be? That’s the question David Lee and Mike Kiser asked in this week’s episode of Mistaken Identity. Then join them for a discussion on some headlines, including newspaper printing presses stopped by ransomware, how to see your neighbors’ security camera footage, and the meltdown/spectre...

Have you been breached yet? If you haven’t yet, this might just be your week. The biggest story this week in security is the data leak known as Collection #1 that exposed 773 million records. You read that right – 773 million records, which include emails and passwords. However, Brian Krebs pointed out that the data is at least two...

When your organization gets breached, will you know how the hacker got in? If you don’t know who has access to what resources in your enterprise, you probably won’t. That’s why the big news of the week in our world is the release of our Identity Report, which is the identity industry’s first benchmark. What really resonated was that IT...