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One Year Down: GDPR by the Numbers

Today marks the first anniversary of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Europe’s data privacy regulation shook up the privacy world by delineating penalties for some of the strongest consumer protection laws of the last 20 years and inspired even stricter laws in other parts of the world. GDPR […]

Identity is Security: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Our personal data is sacred. It is the digital footprint that holds us up and allows us to live our lives out online, but once it’s out there (and in the wrong hands), our footprint becomes wider—and not in a good way. That’s why this week, a headline in CSO […]

Software Bot Implementation Q&A: The Future of Identity and Software Bots

Recently, this large, national bank decided to turn to robotic process automation as a way to help the bank streamline application and resource provisioning, which previously required time-consuming manual processes. We covered their move to robotic process automation in the post, National Bank Readies Itself for the Rise of Software […]

Performance Engineering for SaaS Products at SailPoint

Performance Engineering means many things to different people.  Some people think “simple JMeter tests” and others “advanced capacity planning” or “predictive analytics”.  The Performance Engineering practice at SailPoint spans all of these concepts.  Today we will talk about what Performance Engineering means to IdentityNow and to SailPoint.  Let’s take some […]

Identity is Security: Cyberstrong

We made it! Another week in cybersecurity behind us, and a lot of good and not-so-good news to review. First up, the continuation of military cyber-readiness. Cyberspace is as in need of protection as any of the other four “domains” – land, space, air and sea. Actions continue to speak […]

How Change Healthcare Reimagined Compliance with Identity Governance

Change Healthcare provides revenue and payment cycle management and clinical information exchange solutions that connect payers, providers, and patients in the U.S. healthcare system. The company enables hospitals, doctors and other healthcare affiliates to provide patients a more efficient billing experience. From Complex Legacy to an Innovative Future Change Healthcare […]

Trust in Numbers: An Ethical (and Practical) Standard for Identity-Driven Algorithms

Who was the real Tarra Simmons? On November 16, 2017, she sat before the Washington State Supreme Court. The child of addicts and an ex-addict and ex-felon herself, she had subsequently graduated near the top of her law school class. The Washington State Law Board had denied her access to […]

Identity is Security: Baby Dark Web

“The threats are real, the attackers motivated.” Sounds like a line out of an action movie, but it’s actually how Verizon kicked off their 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report. This years’ highly-anticipated report identified everything from cloud misconfigurations, to ‘business email compromise (BEC),’ and intellectual property theft. And digging a […]

DDE search technology and how to get the most out of your queries

The Dynamic Discovery Engine (DDE) in IdentityNow provides users with the ability to search Identities and related objects using a powerful and flexible search syntax.  The DDE utilizes Elasticsearch to power this search functionality. Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytics engine based on the Lucene information retrieval library. Elasticsearch […]

Living Like the 3%

What kind of financial windfall would it take to put you into the 1% — to enable you to leave your job, climb aboard your yacht, and eat avocado toast for breakfast, lunch, and dinner? The answer to that question varies depending on your location: in India it would be […]