SailPoint platform plays key role in IPO success

SailPoint is a leader in identity security, and it’s a role we take seriously. That’s why the SailPoint platform isn’t just the solution we provide to more than 3,000 customers around the world—it’s the solution we use to manage and secure our own identities in an adaptive and responsive manner. SailPoint Identity Security Cloud has allowed us to significantly advance and mature our own identity program, saving thousands of hours of manual labor and enhancing innovation, efficiency, and security across the organization. The truth is, we understand our customers because we’re one of them: our very own “Customer Zero.” We know the strengths of the SailPoint solutions because we experience them every day.

Security and innovation weren’t our only concerns this year. We were also hard at work preparing for our IPO. For years, we’ve been implementing new automations to streamline processes, drive greater efficiencies, and reduce manual overhead. That focus on automation allowed us to quickly—and significantly—improve our audit readiness and compliance posture, both critical factors in IPO preparation. For us, it was a welcome confirmation of something we already knew: SailPoint Identity Security Cloud creates efficiencies that resonate up and down the entire value chain.

Leveraging SailPoint Identity Security Cloud for IPO preparedness

Security is obviously an essential element of identity management, and it’s something we live every day. But when an IPO is looming, there are other considerations. There are countless regulatory and financial obligations that a company needs to meet before going public, and many of those require the introduction of new solutions, new applications, and new processes. Those don’t always fit seamlessly into the company’s existing digital infrastructure—and all of them come with a host of new identities to manage. That means streamlining, standardizing, and automating the joiner/mover/leaver (JML) process is critical, and it became a point of significant emphasis for us leading up to our IPO.

Our top priority was onboarding and integrating the regulatory and financial applications we needed to meet our new standards. By embedding those systems directly into our identity security framework, we were able to effectively automate JML workflows and streamline the access recertification processes across the enterprise. This had the dual benefit of significantly reducing manual overhead and improving our audit readiness and overall compliance posture, both critical to the IPO process. Our goal was to show regulators and potential investors that the SailPoint identity management and security program was strong enough, efficient enough, and rigorous enough to meet not just the demands of the modern threat landscape, but today’s business environment as well.

Meeting the demands of public market scrutiny

How did we do it? First, we leveraged SailPoint’s AI-driven identity governance capabilities to accelerate role optimization and access governance. For example, the intelligent recommendations provided by the platform enable faster, more accurate access decisions, while automated revocation of risky entitlements double the effectiveness of our certification campaigns. Thanks to the SailPoint platform, we can be certain that each identity has the access permissions it needs—and only the permissions it needs—to perform its core functions. In the context of our IPO preparation, these enhancements ensured that only the right individuals could access sensitive financial systems and applications, reducing risk and bolstering investor confidence.

Integrating identity security into our broader digital transformation strategy also allowed us to scale in a secure and efficient way, something investors are always keen to see. Over the past several years, the SailPoint identity program has evolved from a tactical function into a strategic enabler, driven by automation, predictive analytics, and a product-centric operating model. Our identity program doesn’t just keep us secure. It enables us to improve efficiency, increase productivity, and operate in a more intelligent and insight-driven manner. This mature approach supports security and operational excellence, and positioned SailPoint to meet the rigorous demands of public market scrutiny.

Ultimately, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud didn’t just help us further mature our approach to identity. It became a catalyst for our overall IPO readiness. It allowed us to move faster—and with greater confidence—toward a more complete digital transformation. While SailPoint’s identity management program (and broader security posture) has always been strong, our push to leverage our own solutions to their maximum potential ensured we were well prepared to withstand the scrutiny of auditors, regulators, and investors alike. And it worked: long after our successful IPO, we’re continuing to achieve better outcomes across both security and business initiatives.

Focused on the future of identity

Our efforts may have been focused on IPO preparation at the beginning of the year, but that doesn’t mean our mission is over. Far from it, in fact. SailPoint is continuing to advance and mature our identity program each and every day. We are continually leveraging the SailPoint platform as we move away from standing privileges and toward an adaptive, “just-in-time” access model that provides access privileges on a moment-to-moment basis. We’re further exploring agentic AI, working toward a system that allows our employees—and our customers—to engage directly with AI agents to perform identity-related functions. We’re never satisfied and never complacent, and with our IPO now in the rear-view mirror, we’re focused squarely on the future.

To learn more about how SailPoint leveraged SailPoint Identity Security Cloud to generate new efficiencies and a stronger, more mature approach to identity, read the case study.