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CISO Q&A with Alan Mitchell of Brunswick Corporation

Alan Mitchell is vice president and global chief information security officer (CISO) at Brunswick Corporation, which is headquartered in Mettawa, Illinois, and is well-known for its industry-leading marine engines, boat brands, and parts and accessories. In his role as CISO, Mitchell manages more than 13,000 identities for Brunswick. In our […]

Organizations Have Identity-Shaped Holes In Their Security

IT leaders are under tremendous pressure today. They’re charged with enabling users to be productive while addressing growing security and compliance challenges amid the digital transformation that virtually every enterprise is going through. It can be overwhelming, which is why SailPoint created the industry’s first identity benchmark, the Identity Report. […]

Is Your Organization Experiencing An Identity Crisis With Its Identity Implementation?

With the end of the year upon us and next year’s planning in full swing, many organizations are going through an extensive security evaluation. Now is a good time to pause and assess if your organization is feeling well-prepared to mitigate the risks and unknown challenges that will be upon […]

Helping IT and Security Leaders Sleep Better at Night

In highly regulated industries, the concept of “governance” isn’t new.  In fact, governance (and governance policy creation) is something that can benefit organizations of all sizes across any industry.  Why is that?  Governance allows organizations to establish a set of rules that bring order to the way business is performed.  […]

Identity is Security: Bots in the Wild

Coming off the heels of Gartner IAM in Vegas, one major theme coming out of the show was software bots. We spent some time on the show floor polling IT leaders and getting a pulse on how many businesses have introduced software bots into their business and IT environments – 70 […]

Sailing in Rough Seas

We added some improvements to IdentityIQ 7.3 to make sure that your tasks and requests are not lost at sea. Problems can surface in many different ways: a network failure makes your database server temporarily unavailable; or, one of your SailPoint hosts crashes and is replaced with another; or maybe […]

Customer Spotlight: Maurice Mo, Prudential Corporation Asia

Like all natural-born security professionals, Maurice Mo, Senior Director, Regional IT Security at insurance provider Prudential Corporation Asia, always has a backup. Mo began his career by launching a mobile infotainment company. But in the early 2000s, before smartphones were in every pocket, it proved to be an idea before […]

The Bots Have Arrived

A quick scan of the headlines this month show lots of chatter about ‘what’s next’ for those of us in security and identity as 2019 quickly approaches. That chatter has certainly picked up the pace from the show floor and in and around various sessions this week at the Gartner […]

The Power of Visibility

I recently had the opportunity to attend a banking software conference in Dallas, TX. After spending three days with banking IT professionals from all over the country, I realized something: No matter where you are, and no matter what industry you’re in, seeing and understanding the access your employees have […]

Identity is Security: Hackers Run on Data

There is a lot to unpack this week as we wind down for the weekend. If you run on Dunkin, as many of us do, then you should pay close attention to the breach of the week. The company discovered that hackers were trying to get into user accounts, likely […]