Authored by Matthew Radcliffe, Area Vice President of Sales, US and Canada Healthcare organizations are challenged with knowing how to reduce clinician friction while increasing healthcare organizations’ ability to meet a rapidly changing security landscape. Often losing great clinical staff because they don’t have the right access when they need it most to care for patien...
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When the pandemic took root back in 2020, companies moved to triage mode in order to rapidly become a 100% virtual workforce. The most pressing item on their list: get everyone access to everything they need to be productive on the job from home. Not only was the shift swift, it also created a significant margin for error when it came to the security of the business becaus...
Authored by Jerry Aubel, Senior Product Manager “Audit time and the living is easy!” I suspect the thought of the following access certification review doesn’t have you whistling down the hall, but it doesn’t have to be a burden. User access certification is a critical process for any enterprise. Automating it can make it easy for Identity teams and the business to meet re...
Automation is key to scaling identity security. With so much data, there are not enough experts and resources to keep up with and keep track of every intertwining workstream and application that cross different identities. It has moved far beyond human capacity at this point. At SailPoint, automation is one of the core pillars of our products. We aim to free up time so our ...
It surprises me that in today’s digitally accelerated world, many organizations are still trying to manage and secure their identities with manual processes – using older means like spreadsheets, for example – which is nearly impossible. According to our recent survey, 55% of companies still rely on manual processes to adjust user access when IT environments change. This op...
As part of SailPoint’s ongoing commitment to the security of its products and services and to further promote transparency in the protection of its offerings, SailPoint has been authorized by the CVE Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA), which enables SailPoint to assign CVEs to vulnerabilities identified in its offerings. Once a vulnerability in a SailPoint offering...
Authored by Matthew Radcliffe Historically and as early as three years ago, healthcare organizations may have thought having an identity security program was as simple as having single-sign-on (SSO). However, COVID shined a spotlight on a variety of process gaps across healthcare organizations when it came to managing the access of clinical staff including hospitalists, af...
Security professionals, identity managers, and IT operations teams are under growing pressure to make fast decisions based on a nonstop flow of alerts, reports, and initiatives to both enable and protect the business. According to a recent cloud security report1, 59% of surveyed IT professionals say they receive more than 500 public cloud security alerts per day; 38% receiv...
People tend to want what they need. This is as true for technology solutions as it is for everything else. But while the truism may sound simple in theory, the unfortunate truth is that people don’t always know what they need. Often, customers need to see for themselves the positive outcomes that stem from implementing a solution before they understand why it is necessary. ...
It’s a time-worn adage: “What goes up must come down.” This took on a new meaning this past winter. On February 3, 2022, SpaceX launched 49 Starlink satellites. A day later, they were hit by a geomagnetic storm. By February 8th, SpaceX reported that 40 of the original 49 would reenter the Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrate, or they would soon. These precious resources last...