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How Death, Taxes, and Compliance are Related

Happy tax season. Are you one of the many US taxpayers preparing for Apr 15th? It was once said, “Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn’t be related.”  And nor should complying with industry regulations and impeding your business productivity. Beyond the common misconception that being compliant will […]

Navigate ’19: Our Keynote Speakers

They say the best way to teach someone is through storytelling. And at this year’s SailPoint Navigate Conference, we are committed to educating our attendees through the power of a good story. If you can join us in Austin for our annual user conference—Navigate ‘19—you will not be disappointed with […]

Banking Industry Leverages the Power of SaaS-based Identity to Scale

This New England bank has grown 200% in the last three years causing their employee count to quadruple. This growth is largely attributed to a national student loan consolidation and refinancing platform, as well as proprietary personal loan and mortgage products introduced in 2016. At the time, they were a […]

Identity is Security: I Need Your Attention, Please!

Another day, another Facebook mishap. This week in cybersecurity news, we spy another unfortunate headline for Facebook. As you probably remember, a few weeks ago news broke that Facebook stored millions of unencrypted user passwords in plain text. The kicker here is that it had been happening for years. Well, […]

Intuitiveness in Exception and Error Handling in Connectors

Connector projects are complex and exceptions are bound to happen. It is important that we have the ability to catch, categorize and handle exceptions, so that we do not leave the SailPoint identity platform in an inconsistent state. At SailPoint, we perform rigorous proofreading for preproduction and postproduction errors to […]

NNIT Displaces Legacy Identity System with SailPoint

NNIT is one of Denmark’s leading IT consultancies in IT development, implementation and operations. For more than a decade, NNIT has continued to optimize software development, business processes, and communication technology for its customers within Denmark and across the globe, including China, the Czech Republic, the Philippines, Switzerland, and the […]

The Compliance Connection: The Role Of Identity Governance

In January, France’s data regulator fined Google almost $60 million, the biggest penalty issued by a European agency and the first instance of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) being exercised. It’s unlikely to be the last, though, as governments and individuals increasingly expect stronger data security and privacy policies. […]

An Auto Mechanic’s Guide to Cybersecurity

The sound of silence can be deafening when it’s coming from your car engine as you turn the ignition. Given how much of our lives rely on transit, repairing a vehicle often rises quickly to the top of our priority list. Unfortunately, repairing today’s complex automotive inner-workings requires skillsets and […]

A Cher-Based Lament for World Backup Day

Great suffering always produces great art, with each master artist choosing her own medium. The powerful combination of pain and creativity finds its greatest expression in the form of a lament. Merriam-Webster defines a lamentation as “an expression of sorrow, mourning, or regret.” Around World Backup Day, you may read […]

Identity is Security: When It Rains, It Pours

Did you know only 11% of cybersecurity specialists are women? That is an astonishingly low number if you think about every job that encompasses the information security workforce. Well, have no fear, the UK-based National Cyber Security Centre hopes to change that statistic and move the needle with a competition. […]