The Identity Blog

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Voices of experience – real-world benefits of identity security

Regardless of what industry you’re in, identity security must be a component of your overall cyber security strategy. Identity security is a critical line of defense against cyber threats, enabling the management and governance of access for every digital identity in an organization. Digital identities, such as email addresses or login credentials and pin numbers, are uniq...

5 reasons to level up from your legacy platform and migrate to a modern identity security solution

Enterprises have a lot invested in their legacy identity security solutions, so it comes as no surprise when they may resist the idea of migrating to a modern solution. It can be difficult to convince stakeholders across the organization to turn their backs on the time and money already spent in maintaining the complex web of integrations that comprise the enterprise’s iden...

Meet our CISO – Rex Booth

CISOs are busy. They are in a mad dash to secure their enterprise while juggling an overwhelming number of competing priorities, budgets, driving efficiencies, all while evolving the digital ecosystem to match pace with the speed of innovation and change happening across the business. So, if you get a moment of their time, you better make it count. We were able to sit down...

Introducing the SailPoint Partner Fleet program

At SailPoint, customer success is critical to us, especially in our largely SaaS world, and partners play a significant role in helping drive that. Partners driving the right behaviors, not just sourcing opportunities or transacting opportunities but, more importantly, implementing our products and helping our customers get up and running quickly. SailPoint Partner Fleet is...

Voices of experience – Industry trends driving the need for Identity and Access Governance (IGA)

From digital transformation to cloud computing to the Internet of Things, to employees using their own devices and working remotely worldwide, today’s organizations need to manage more IT connections across more devices from more places. Yet all these “things” accessing other “things” increases the security risk and the possibility that malicious actors will gain unapprove...

Identity security enabling enterprises

Authored by Ana Hilstad, Senior Product Marketing Manager Historically, identity security was not discussed on an executive level. But thankfully, that has changed. This shift was apparent throughout the sessions on the expo hall floor and in many of SailPoint’s customer conversations held at the Gartner IAM Conference two weeks ago. The added focus on identity security a...

Voices of experience – Why IT leaders consider identity security essential to their business

When is cyber security not just security? When it’s identity security. While good cyber security is critical for protecting data and avoiding online attacks and hacks, some security solutions can deliver increased security and much more. In fact, identity security enables a broad range of values beyond basic access management that many organizations consider it a business ...

SailPoint and Atlassian Jira Service Management

Authored by Adam Creaney, Senior Manager, Solutions Development Core to comprehensive Identity Security is the timely and efficient modification of access when required. SailPoint provides direct provisioning capabilities to our customers’ most critical enterprise applications. Still, we also recognize that many tools require manual intervention within the modern Informati...

Roping in identity security threats with SailPoint solutions

I love the rodeo. I said it. I love everything about the rodeo. From the livestock shows to the food vendors, the shopping, the concerts, and especially the rodeo events. Every year, as soon as my family gets our tickets, it feels like Christmas has come early, and I start counting down the days until we go. While I love the rodeo, I am also amazed by it. Every night for ab...

Top 10 signs your approach to non-employee identity management needs improvement

Authored by Mike Conti, Product Marketing Manager To increase flexibility and boost competitiveness, organizations have eagerly embraced a growing diverse population of consultants, partners, vendors, and other contingent labor, as well as non-human technologies like service accounts, bots, and smart devices. But it’s often difficult to gauge the maturity level of managing...