“Describe the next year in identity in one word.” David Lee and Mike Kiser take up this challenge as they forecast the coming twelve months. (Spoiler alert: the episode is 34 minutes long, so apparently there was more to say than a single term.) Headlines include: newspaper printing presses stopped […]
In November, the SaaS organization at SailPoint Technologies ran its 2nd hackathon for 2018 – “Hack to the Future”. 44 crew members from engineering, DevOps, design, services and support came together to form teams and in under 2 days executed on a set of wide-ranging ideas – some related to […]
In my recent conversation with security journalist and blogger George Hulme, we discussed a number of technology trends currently disrupting enterprises, including the accelerating adoption of enterprise software-as-a-service applications, mobile devices, cloud storage, and collaborative tools. Specifically, we spoke about the fact that much of this adoption occurs without the […]
A San Francisco-based company and the global leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure has maintained its edge over their competitors by relying on patented technology to disseminate press releases within milliseconds to thousands of media points. This technology allows them to control their client’s sensitive information before it hits […]
Here we are. Another year behind us, another year ahead. We’ve been doing a lot of reflecting this week as we get geared up for what’s to come. This week, we’re helping you get caught up on everything going on in the world of security. It was hard to keep […]
As we reflect on the past year at SailPoint, the last few months have been an incredible time to see our crew in action on our many giving initiatives as a company. Many of these are projects individual team members or small groups began, but in true SailPoint Crew fashion, […]
We recently had the opportunity to speak with Rob McCurdy, chief information officer of Michigan State University about enterprise technology, security careers and the evolution of identity management. As CIO, Rob is responsible for leading Michigan State University’s (MSU) technology strategy and managing overall IT operations and services. His current focus […]
The world is seemingly up in arms about privacy this week. Facebook continues to lead the parade of headlines highlighting how consumer privacy is essentially non-existent after the New York Times revealed that Facebook shared private messages and other data with more than 150 companies. Facebook was adamant that whatever […]
In the tech era we’re living in today, you’ll find that most high-tech companies have a geographically distributed team and that most of the time they are also culturally diversified. That’s certainly the case here at SailPoint. For example, the team I’m a part of – our connectivity engineering team […]
As in many large organizations, the identity and access management program at Jackson National Life Insurance Company (Jackson) grew organically over time. Most of those growth processes were done manually. As new applications and requests for access to existing applications would arrive, the identity team would get to work on […]
