Secure any identity any application

Security and IT leaders are caught in a relentless tug-of-war. On one side, the business demands rapid adoption of new applications, SaaS solutions, and emerging AI tools to stay competitive. On the other side, security teams require rigorous control to mitigate access risk, maintain continuous audit readiness, and meet strict compliance mandates.

Attempting to deeply integrate every single application into a central identity security program using traditional methods creates a painful operational bottleneck. It slows business velocity and builds compounding “identity debt.” In fact, 60% of IT leaders cite either environmental complexity or a lack of pre-built connectors as their biggest barrier to comprehensive connectivity.

Organizations do not need a heavier IT workload; they need a smarter, adaptive strategy. SailPoint’s unified application connectivity strategy solves the challenge of application sprawl and identity growth by governing and securing any identity’s access to your complete landscape, matching the depth of identity governance to the actual risk level of each application.

An adaptive approach to connectivity

Effective identity security depends on achieving continuous visibility and control across your entire digital ecosystem. But not all applications carry the same level of business criticality or exposure. Treating every application identically, whether through rigid, months-long deep integrations or superficial manual reviews, strains resources and leaves dangerous blind spots.

SailPoint’s unified strategy moves away from a rigid, one-size-fits-all model. Instead of forcing teams down a linear, step-by-step path, it provides dynamic operational levers that organizations can dial up or adjust flexibly based on specific business needs and application risk:

Visibility

You cannot govern what they cannot see, making continuous transparency across the digital footprint essential for reducing risk. Rather than relying on static, point-in-time manual audits, SailPoint delivers continuous, automated discovery to uncover hidden shadow IT and rogue tools. Lightweight browser extensions automatically detect browser-based applications and SaaS tools accessed across the workforce, while dedicated Discovery Connectors pull real-time insights directly from Identity Providers (IdPs) and CMDBs. By unifying discovery findings into a single, definitive application inventory, security teams gain continuous visibility to make faster, more accurate risk and access decisions.

Compliance

Not every system demands deep technical integration to remain secure and compliant. For the broad expanse of business-supporting applications across an enterprise portfolio, SailPoint automates and simplifies access compliance to keep organizations audit-ready without generating manual IT overhead. Security teams can rapidly deploy lightweight connectivity to review and certify user access without requiring weeks of complex engineering, replacing manual spreadsheets with automated certifications and continuous tracking. SailPoint’s universal catalog gives teams the flexibility to establish compliance certifications immediately and dynamically scale up governance depth as risk profiles or regulatory needs shift.

Deep governance

For your most critical enterprise platforms, such as core ERPs, customer databases, and sensitive financial systems, risk profiles dictate an uncompromising depth of control. Deep governance enforces granular, policy-based access controls to prevent privilege misuse and toxic access combinations. Organizations can connect instantly with hundreds of high-fidelity, pre-built integrations engineered for deep bi-directional lifecycle management, fine-grained entitlements, and Separation of Duties policies. This pillar also extends identity governance to non-human identities, including machine credentials, service accounts, and AI agents, by tying them directly back to accountable human owners, backed by robust support for open standards like SCIM, JDBC, and Web Services for bespoke systems.

Unlocking comprehensive identity security at enterprise scale

With SailPoint’s unified application connectivity strategy, organizations gain the power to integrate with thousands of applications at the exact level of depth and governance they need, ensuring every identity remains secure across the enterprise. By bringing visibility, compliance, and deep governance together into an adaptive framework, SailPoint eliminates the traditional trade-offs between onboarding velocity and governance controls. Organizations can directly apply the precise level of security and governance each application requires based on its operational role and real-world risk—empowering security teams to confidently protect both mission-critical platforms and the expansive long tail of business applications

Fast-tracking application onboarding at scale

Governing the long tail of applications has historically forced identity teams into difficult trade-offs between custom scripting backlogs and manual provisioning tickets. To accelerate time to value, SailPoint combines intelligent automation and no-code tooling to ingest, map, and secure access across three breakthrough capabilities:

Extending governance to disconnected applications

Enterprise ecosystems still rely heavily on legacy, on-premises, or air-gapped systems that lack standard APIs. Historically, bringing these applications under governance meant relying on manual ticket queues or fragile, maintenance-heavy scripts.

SailPoint's disconnected applications connector bridges this gap by automating access management directly at the interface level. By automating access aggregation and fulfillment for systems without modern APIs, organizations can eliminate error-prone manual provisioning, extend consistent identity security across legacy estates, and bring previously unreachable systems into central audit workflows.

Onboarding web services applications in minutes

For custom and niche web applications with REST APIs, configuring custom web services connectors has traditionally required deep developer expertise, days of manual endpoint mapping, and trial-and-error schema configuration.

SailPoint's Connectivity Agent transforms this process into an AI-guided, wizard-based setup experience directly within the onboarding workflow:

• Automated API analysis. The intelligent assistant analyzes target REST API endpoints to generate step-by-step recommendations for authentication, pagination, and attribute mapping.
• Human-in-the-loop governance. Because identity security demands absolute precision, the connectivity agent assists rather than acts autonomously, keeping your team in control to review, validate, and test every recommendation before deployment.
• Drastic time savings. What once took days of custom integration engineering can now be completed and verified in minutes.

Achieve rapid time to governance

When teams need to onboard standard business applications rapidly, complex configuration shouldn't stand in the way of immediate governance.

SailPoint’s express setup provides a turnkey, no-code onboarding flow that allows administrators to ingest and map identity access data in just a few clicks. With hundreds of applications now available for express setup, organizations can instantly onboard popular productivity, collaboration, and department-specific SaaS tools with zero custom mapping required.

Agentic adoption with confidence

As modern enterprises accelerate automation and cloud adoption, securing the explosive growth of non-human identities and autonomous workloads has become just as urgent as protecting human users. We have substantially expanded our SailPoint Agentic Fabric capabilities, introducing automated discovery and governance for non-human identities across cloud infrastructure, secrets managers, and privileged access environments. To protect developer pipelines, our new CI/CD connectors bring critical visibility to machine accounts across modern DevOps toolchains. These additions give organizations continuous oversight into how autonomous agents, service accounts, and developer tools access critical enterprise resources.

Closing the confidence gap

Shifting identity security from a reactive, piecemeal exercise to an adaptive, unified control plane gives enterprises the agility to innovate securely. You no longer have to choose between onboarding speed and governance depth.

With SailPoint’s unified application connectivity strategy, you gain the clarity, scalability, and technical confidence to govern your complete application landscape, protecting human and non-human identities alike, proactively eliminating access-related risk, and empowering your business to move fast without friction.

To learn more about how to secure your entire application ecosystem, read the full whitepaper: Unified app connectivity: A flexible framework for the digital ecosystem.