We have a big week ahead, and I’m thrilled to be at the sixth SailPoint identity governance conference, Navigate ’18, this week at the JW Marriott in downtown Austin. This is my third-year attending Navigate, and it’s always a time filled with interesting discussion, panels, and keynotes about the current […]
There’s a lot of evolving risk facing enterprises today, whether it’s the risks associated with costly data breaches or from failing to meet regulatory compliance or ever-changing enterprise technologies fueled by cloud services and new intelligent bots — how enterprises manage identities must adapt. That was the essence of SailPoint’s […]
Identity professionals from far and wide have descended on Austin, Texas for Navigate ’18, the identity governance conference. This is the biggest Navigate yet, with a sold-out crowd of more than 1,000 identity professionals, all here to talk about identity governance. Navigate has grown a lot in the three years […]
Another week has come and gone, and in identity and security that means another flurry of headlines to sort through. Let’s start with the biggest elephant in the room this week: GDPR. As companies try to get ahead of the first GDPR requirements, consumers are seeing a flurry of privacy […]
A time comes for every technology when it’s outstripped by a newcomer. CDs brought about the demise of floppy disks and cassette tapes, just as streaming services like Pandora and Spotify have now taken over CDs. But even in the enterprise space, new technologies are taking over the territories of […]
SailPoint’s world headquarters is in Austin, Texas, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. From the best barbeque in the country to the active outdoor lifestyle and burgeoning tech industry, it’s hard to imagine a better place to live, work and play. And the Tex-Mex doesn’t hurt either. One […]
The organizational structure of colleges and universities make them one of the most interesting industries for addressing identity challenges. Students, faculty and staff often change roles, and in addition, a new wave of students enters the organization at the start of a semester or quarter each year. When a student […]
Thanks to World Password Day, passwords are in the spotlight in this week’s news cycle. You may think the password’s days are numbered, but they’re still a major piece of the cybersecurity puzzle. Our weekly news recap begins in small-town Virginia. A high-school student got his hands on a password […]
Just a few letters, numbers and (hopefully) special characters stand between your data and someone who could do something damaging with it. Yes, I’m talking about passwords and passphrases, something we all love to hate. SailPoint partnered with research company Vanson Bourne to survey 400 IT decision makers about their […]
Passwords. We need them for just about everything today. Yet, do we really think about them very much other than to mindlessly type them in when asked to log in? And by ‘think about them,’ I mean – are you regularly updating them, making them unique, avoiding duplicating them across […]
