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Reducing risk and increasing compliance through non-employee risk management

What good is the strongest door lock if all the windows in your house are unlocked and not monitored?   Unfortunately, that’s the situation for too many organizations when it comes to lifecyle management and risk management of non-employees. For example, a recent PwC Survey found that only 40% of survey […]

Using identity to reduce the burden of managing SaaS sprawl

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions can be a huge improvement over traditional IT solutions in many ways, from cost and scalability to easier deployment and maintenance. Those benefits (and others) are helping to drive rapid growth in the SaaS market, which is projected by Gartner to top 16% in 2023.   But with […]

Password Management – The road to IT productivity 

Authored by Jerry Aubel, Senior Product Marketing Manager Think fast: what’s the most critical element of a robust Identity and Access Management strategy?  Ask any security team, and I’ll wager that their answers will be all over the map. One key element that’s sometimes overlooked is password management. But take […]

Learning the ropes: How SailPoint’s learning and development programs help crew members get ahead 

Have you ever started a job knowing exactly what to do right out of the gate? Neither have we. 😊 Even well-versed industry gurus face learning curves in new environments, from figuring out new tools to navigating company culture.   What’s better than an opportunity to learn from co-workers who’ve been […]

SailPoint products explained: June webinars

We get it. Technology and, more specifically, identity security move fast. That’s why, at SailPoint, we aim to continuously share our insights to help educate and inform the market on the latest threats and challenges facing organizations.   Whether you want to better understand how SailPoint can help your organization, […]

Foot to the floor ahead of 2024: what NIS2 means for your business

Authored by Steve Bradford, SVP, EMEA   In December 2022, the European Union’s updated Network and Information Security Directive, more commonly known as NIS2, came into force. This means that EU Member States will have until 17 October 2024 to put this new law into their national legislation.   The original NIS […]

Voices of experience – What’s the role of a cloud-first approach to identity security?

Managing cyber security for an organization is an ongoing process that evolves as an organization’s infrastructure, applications, technology, and user base evolves.  For many organizations, cloud is an important part of that evolution. Some organizations have gone fully to the cloud with applications and data; others are still wholly on-premises, […]

It’s a good thing I’m not bitter: how easy it’d be to wreak havoc on my previous employer

Authored by Anonymous SailPoint Employee Before joining SailPoint, I worked at a B2B company for just over a decade. I loved my time there, and I still have nothing but the fondest of feelings for the organization, the people I worked with, and the work we did together there.    And, […]

SailPoint named in KuppingerCole Leadership Compass

Authored by Linda Adams, Senior Analyst Relations Manager As an analyst relations professional, I’ve project-managed dozens of analyst evaluations and learned some critical differences among firms. Some reports only skim the surface and provide a superficial market view. Others do an in-depth analysis, requiring vendors to provide a detailed written […]

Takeaways from RSA 2023: LLMs, National Defense and identity as the new cybersecurity perimeter

The 2023 RSA Conference in San Francisco showcased cutting-edge developments in the cybersecurity landscape, focusing on the potential and challenges Large Language Models (LLMs), the increasing importance of identity as the new perimeter for cyber defense, and the cybersecurity imperative for national defense. In this blog, I’ll be diving into […]