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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The phrase, “probably worth a google” takes on a whole new shade of meaning as Mistaken Identity explores the fourth fine levied under GDPR. Google was fined $57 million for inadequate user consent by a French data privacy agency. Is this the “big one” that people have been waiting for […]
Some people collect snow globes. Others collect trophies. And some collect data breaches. All eyes are focused on the big collection of 2.2 billion unique usernames and passwords that was recently discovered making its way around the internet. We often look at these major breaches in retrospect and wonder how we could […]
Almost half of data breaches today involve lapses in access privileges. Think about the sheer number of events that occur every minute around user access—human and non-human, in-office and remote, across a landscape of partners and vendors—and the immense challenge of identity governance becomes crystal clear. A Forbes Insights/SailPoint survey […]
About a year ago, Terry Garbo, senior information security engineer, decided to find a way to cut costs associated with service desk calls in his organization. He decided, with better identity governance, he’d help staff to manage their password resets. “My goal for us to work smarter would be to […]
Starting a new job is often a slow-moving experience. One that far too many of us can relate to. Where’s the nearest coffee shop? How am I going to remember all of these strange conference room names? And how many times have you started a new job and had to […]
It was not the first such event, nor will it be the last. At 11:41 p.m. on January 20, 2019, the bright Austin night slipped into shadow as the full moon took on a deep crimson hue. The total lunar eclipse lasted only 62 minutes, but its effect on the […]
You may grow weary of health data breaches splashing news headlines, but it’s not going away. In fact, it’s on the rise with the number of compromised patient records climbing each quarter for the first 9 months of 2018. But countering the threat does not come cheap. While the cost […]
