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Riding the Data Wave with SailPoint and Dropbox

We’re excited to announce our partnership with Dropbox, as we become a key part of their ecosystem to help organizations prepare to migrate their data to the cloud and keep their content secure once there. Many organizations have embraced the many benefits that a cloud storage provider like Dropbox can […]

Identity is Security: The Price of a Data-Driven World

Can you confidently say that you know where your personal data lives? Do you know what apps have permission to use your data? As consumers, we tend to over-extend permission to our data without realizing it. A Kaspersky report out this week found that hackers are selling entire digital identities […]

Quality is Everyone’s Responsibility

For any successful product, quality can’t just be a phase or merely a process or even the responsibility of just one team, it must be integrated into every part of the delivery cycle. At SailPoint we have a simple motto: Quality is everyone’s responsibility. Every change in our product is put […]

What Makes Identity HITRUST-Worthy?

A U.S health insurer just agreed to pay a record-setting $16 million in fines stemming from a 2015 data breach. Health and Human Services revealed that the organization failed to: Conduct an enterprise-wide risk analysis Possess sufficient procedures to regularly review information system activity Identify and respond to suspected or […]

Identity is Security: Anyone Can Be Hacked

This week, we learned nobody is off limits when it comes to a breach after the Orange County branch of the Girl Scouts of America was hacked. It’s not clear how it was done, but they said in a statement that an “unauthorized third party” compromised an email account, leading them […]

How Our Customers Are Meeting Today’s Identity Challenges

The Identity Panel at our Navigate events is always a fantastic meeting of the minds on all the things keeping identity professionals up at night. The insights shared from our panel in Barcelona provided an in-depth look into how companies are embracing the post-GDPR world. We explored the new frontiers […]

The Business of Cybersecurity

I want to ask you a question, and I want you to take a minute to think about it before you answer really. Are you ready? There is a right answer, although it may not be what you think. IT security, cybersecurity, whatever we want to call it these days […]

How to Build an Effective Security Training and Awareness Program

In a time when security is everyone’s business, corporate training programs have a lot of potential to make a huge impact. Our security team shared what they think works best when educating an employee population on being cyberaware. Simply repeating yourself isn’t always going to drive the message home, and […]

Seven Things Everyone Should Be Doing When it Comes to Cybersecurity at Work and Home

Fact: cybersecurity affects everyone. Another fact: everyone can do something about it. For Cybersecurity Awareness Month, my fellow security teammates at SailPoint and I thought about what the cybersecurity basics are to share actionable advice to help you change your security habits for the better, and make technology work in […]

Identity is Security: Risk Versus Reward

We’re seeing a lot of interesting developments in the ever-expanding world of data these days. This week, that took the form of the new Facebook Portal, which is Facebook’s stab at a home assistant. It’s an interesting announcement, especially timing-wise, from Facebook, given the heat they’ve been in over their […]