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Friday Quick-Take: Get the Scoop on SailPoint’s Leadership in the Latest Industry Analyst Report on Identity Governance and Administration (IGA)

It’s undeniable, the world has seen some major changes over the past year. Many of these changes have directly affected enterprises’ security needs. As the world evolves, SailPoint continues to display a strong understanding of existing and emerging challenges across the security landscape solidifying its position as the overall market leader in KuppingerCole’s 2021 Leaders...

Navigate 2021: Confidence Redefined — A Roadmap to Identity Security

We’ve all heard the phrase, “fake it till you make it,” and likely have used this mindset a time or two to land a job interview, to overcome fears ahead of a presentation, or even when putting together a strategy at work. Over the last two years, many of us probably also had to fake being “put together”— whatever that looks like —as we figured out how to work and live at ho...

An Interview With Roy Sookhoo, CIO at University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center

As technology professionals, it’s all too easy to become too tightly focused on the technology at the expense of the bigger picture — technology is simply a means to an end. That end for Roy Sookhoo, CIO at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, is to improve people’s lives in some way and make the organization more resilient, agile, and efficient. Sookhoo st...

The Untold Risk of Automatic Remediation of Cloud Access

Authored by: Lori Robinson It’s inevitable that you will run across a situation where the cloud access configured in your environments is misconfigured or over provisioned. This is to be expected due to the high velocity, large volume, and wide variety of changes that are constantly taking place in cloud environments. Even with the most carefully crafted governance framewo...

Extensibility Made Easy with iPaaS Connectors

In the last decade, new innovative technologies have made our lives so much easier. Food arrives at our doorstep with the tap of a button. Alexa makes it easy for us to order anything we want by simply talking into a speaker. We can watch whatever movie or TV show, thanks to thousands of options on Netflix. At SailPoint, we’re taking the same approach of making our extensib...

Five Trends Driving Digital Transformation in the Insurance Industry

Digital transformation is revolutionizing the insurance industry. Automation of manual processes, digitization of paper forms and records, and decision support fueled by artificial intelligence (AI) are rapidly becoming necessities rather than niceties. Here we explore five main reasons insurance providers must modernize to remain competitive. 1. Customer expectations have...

Delivering Dynamic Governance to Potentially High-Risk Users

Authored by: Eric Yuan, Vice President, Global Strategic Partners, SailPoint Detecting risk in an organization is harder than ever before. With a mostly virtual workforce accessing, creating, and storing company and customer confidential information both locally and in cloud storage solutions, the threat surface is more expansive than ever before. Sure, IT has risk monitor...

Three Key Takeaways From Edgile’s Recent Webinar “The Power Behind the SailPoint and Microsoft Partnership”

Authored by: Gretchen Wichmann, Managing Director at Edgile, Identity Practice Leader Identity programs sit at the center of the modern security strategy. Developing the identity strategy and successfully running identity programs—not projects, but actual, robust programs—remains a top priority for many organizations. This leaves program execution an active assignment in t...

Introducing SailPoint SaaS Management – Taking Security Beyond Just the Apps You’re Aware Of

You can’t secure what you can’t see. You can’t control what you don’t understand. This reality alongside the rapid pace of change our customers are facing on a daily basis is what fuels some of the exciting updates our team is launching this quarter. The future of work and employee efficiency lies within the Cloud and SaaS, which is a landscape that changes by the minute....