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The Cybersecurity Regulatory Crackdown

October 26, 2017 | Juliette Rizkallah | Market Views

We claim we are in a new era of cybersecurity threats and that ransomware is the threat du jour, given how WannaCry and Petya continue to make waves. But we are also in an era of a new wave of cybersecurity regulations. When looking at the latest attacks, some would argue that the same old vulnerabilities are to blame, and that is because organizations are dragging...

Preparing the C-Suite for Cyberattack

October 10, 2017 | Darran Rolls | Office of the CTO

In my previous blog post, I shared why the very thing that makes your C-suite great at their jobs – their visibility and accessibility – can also make them prime targets for attack. So the next question is how can you prepare them for that attack, while also protecting and maintaining the goals of your company? Here are a few...

C-Suite: The Easy Target for Hackers

October 5, 2017 | Darran Rolls | Office of the CTO

Your executives are the face of your company, often speaking at events, giving interviews to the media and traveling the world as key representatives of your brand. They’re visible and accessible, which are both great traits for leaders. However, this level of exposure also makes them (as well as the board) easy targets for hackers – and as technology advances,...

Admiral Nelson, Identity, and the Internet of Things

September 21, 2017 | Mike Kiser | Market Views

On October 21, 1805, the world changed. At the Battle of Trafalgar, British Admiral Horatio Nelson introduced a new strategy for naval warfare. Instead of lining up in a firing line opposite the enemy, he sailed his fleet directly into the enemy lines. The resulting chaos meant that sailors could no longer rely on location to identify friend and foe....

Is Cybersecurity A Second Coming For AI?

August 15, 2017 | Juliette Rizkallah | Market Views

Artificial intelligence (AI) is all over the technology headlines lately. It seems to be the latest buzzword to take hold, yet the question remains: Will this be a quick fad, or are we actually seeing the second coming of AI? Most recently, there has been a heavy surge of artificial intelligence thinking applied to cybersecurity. Could this be a long-term...

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Identity is Security: Breaking Records

February 8, 2019 | Jess Sutera | Market Views

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,...

Productivity: Time To Do More

February 7, 2019 | SailPoint | Market Views

The connection between identity governance and productivity might not be immediately apparent. But once you start thinking of all the processes tied to identity and access—provisioning and deprovisioning employees or contractors, for example, or managing password resets—the amount of time wasted in mundane tasks becomes all too apparent. Increasing productivity is a topic discussed and analyzed at length (and for...

Street Magician Reveals ‘Intelligent’ Lessons for Cybersecurity

February 6, 2019 | Larry Salazar | Market Views, Happenings

You’ve seen this act before. A famous street magician stops an unexpecting passerby and asks the individual to participate in a magic trick. The magician places a playing card in each of the participant’s hands. He grabs the participant’s wrists and waves it back and forth—promising that the cards will switch from one hand to the other. However, nothing happens....

Different Teams, Common Goals

February 5, 2019 | Dinesh Mishra | Engineering

Common goals empower an engineering team, to become more agile, productive and efficient. These are important not only because they provide direction for the team but because they bring people together and encourage them to communicate problems and work together for the result. At SailPoint we have a remote engineering team in Pune, India working on connectivity. Our team has...

PeaceHealth Secures Patient & Provider Identities with SailPoint

February 5, 2019 | Nicole Thomas | Identity Working

Some of the world’s leading hospitals and health networks leverage SailPoint solutions to deploy identity governance programs that secure these complex organizations. Healthcare providers have diverse populations of users that often have multiple personas. On top of that, the industry is one of the most heavily regulated. To protect patients and medical providers an identity solution with flexibility and performance...

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