SailPoint vs. Zilla (CyberArk IGA)
SailPoint delivers deep visibility, control, and automation of human and non-human identity security with a modern platform.
Overview
Why organizations choose SailPoint over Zilla (CyberArk IGA)
Modern enterprises see identity security as a critical enabler of business agility and stronger security. As the demands of business and the threat landscape evolve, an identity security platform must combine breadth, depth, and innovation of capabilities to fulfill this role for now and for the future.
SailPoint is designed to deliver both time-to-value and real ROI getting customers 1) quick visibility of their applications and access – where many vendors stop with primarily read-only integrations – along with 2) full, automated, fine-grained control needed to close the loop on necessary access changes with out-of-the-box capabilities. As customers expand to more advanced and complex needs, SailPoint can accommodate those, too. SailPoint is a comprehensive platform for managing identity security for employee, non-employee, machine, and agent identities and their entitlements across SaaS, cloud, on-prem, and custom systems.
Zilla positions itself as reducing manual processes by providing some of the basics, such as profile (role) recommendations, access reviews, and lifecycle management. However, this can fail to provide robust answers to “Who should have access to what, why should they have that access, and when should they have that access,” as well as a robust ability to act based on those answers.
SailPoint spans the spectrum from quick compliance to deep and broad identity governance and security. Wherever an organization is in its identity security journey, SailPoint has the platform to handle it. Thousands of customers, including over 50% of the Fortune 500, trust SailPoint to streamline visibility, lifecycle management, access requests, access reviews, as well as deliver innovation such as AI, ML, and agentic capabilities to govern access for all applications, resources, and identities in one platform.
Why SailPoint is the clear choice:
- Robust, extensible connectivity: 250+ out-of-the-box, bi-directional governance connectors, a large library of community-built connectors, a highly flexible connector framework, and SailPoint Accelerated Application Management all enable finer-grained entitlement visibility and control for nearly any application to deliver fast, comprehensive application coverage and control.
- Governance depth: Built-in governance process automation and configurable, automated workflows, advanced intelligence, and AI, ML, and agentic capabilities enable faster, smarter governance, and security. SailPoint goes beyond simple peer and usage analysis to incorporate identity and business context to create cleaner, policy-aware RBAC.
- Proven scalability and support: SailPoint is a proven, trusted partner to many of the world’s largest organizations using its modern SaaS platform.
At-a-glance comparison
SailPoint vs. Zilla (CyberArk IGA)
What is needed to deliver identity security | SailPoint | Zilla (CyberArk IGA) |
|---|---|---|
Connectivity | Comprehensive coverage across environments SailPoint-built and -supported out-of-the-box connectors, community-built connectors, a flexible connector framework – as well as Accelerated Application Management – all combine to extend visibility and direct control over access to systems and applications quickly and comprehensively. | Emphasis on visibility Zilla’s out-of-the-box integrations implement provisioning support unevenly. Going beyond these leverages flat-file imports and RPA that can be brittle and limited to visibility. |
Identity security maturity | Deep and broad identity security platform SailPoint provides robust identity and role modeling, automated access requests and access reviews, and extensive lifecycle management. Built-in governance processes, and configurable workflows alongside dashboard and graph-based visualization, and AI/ML/agent-based capabilities apply to humans, non-humans, and their application and data access. | Basic modeling and governance capabilities Zilla’s products and capabilities are oriented around basic access reviews, provisioning, lifecycle management, and role modeling. Zilla uses explicit data to build flat, non-hierarchical roles that risk role explosion and over-privileging. |
Proven scale and experience | Proven scalability and support SailPoint has decades of experience, thousands of customers and partners, hundreds of support staff, and significant R&D investment focused on delivering expertise, innovation, and success in identity security. | Less experience and resources Palo Alto Network’s focus on identity governance needs to be considered as they digest significantly larger acquisitions across CyberArk, Chronosphere, Koi, Venafi, and ProtectAI. |
Deeper comparison
Go deeper on how SailPoint goes beyond Zilla (CyberArk IGA)
Comprehensive visibility and control across systems
Identity security today begins with reliable, broad, and fine-grained connectivity across the full technology estate, including SaaS applications, cloud platforms, on-premises systems, and data sources. That connectivity is what enables organizations to gain trustworthy visibility into and govern the granular entitlements that underlie access. SailPoint is a leader in building the connectivity that makes these core competencies of identity security possible.
SailPoint has built and supports more than 250 out-of-the-box, bi-directional connectors. This is supplemented by an expanded catalog of community-developed integrations. Furthermore, SailPoint’s adaptable framework supports low-code, p...
Deep and broad identity security platform
Core capabilities such as lifecycle management, access requests, and access reviews are baseline requirements for identity security. But modern identity security platforms must go further by incorporating policy awareness, business context, and security context, while integrating with broader security ecosystems to identify and remediate risk quickly across all forms of access and all identity types, including employees, non-employees, human users, and non-human identities.
SailPoint’s robust identity model creates comprehensive views of identities and their access across complex environments and organizational structures through sophisticated identity correlation. Paired with AI/ML-driven ...
Proven scalability and support
Businesses, their technology landscapes, and the regulatory and threat environments are always in flux. This requires a platform and partner that can scale, support, and innovate to stay ahead of ever-changing needs around application and data access for employees, contractors and partners, and non-human identities across SaaS, cloud, and on-prem systems. SailPoint has decades of experience and partnership with leading organizations consistently delivering comprehensive identity security amid evolving needs.
SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, powered by a modern, multi-tenant SaaS platform, supports thousands of customers and has governed over 125 million identities and 5 billion entitlemen...
OUR CUSTOMERS
Many of the world’s leading enterprises trust SailPoint
53% of the Fortune 500 and 28% of the Forbes Global 2000
HEINEKEN balances security & productivity
“With SailPoint as our partner, we are able to build a robust identity security platform together which serves our ultimate goal to become best-connected brewer.”
Kamy Ng, Digital Identity Lead, HEINEKEN
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Frequently asked questions
What are the biggest advantages of the SailPoint Platform for organizations?
The SailPoint Platform helps enterprises maintain a single source of truth for identity, providing full visibility and control across a hybrid environment. Using an extensive library of connectors, it integrates with all your critical applications. Our industry-leading data model and machine learning provide personalized insights to help you make smarter decisions and automate business processes.
What applications does SailPoint Identity Security Cloud connect to and support?
SailPoint’s extensive catalog of connectors and integrations gives your organization the ability to easily extend identity security to hundreds of critical, everyday applications. With the help of AI and automation, it’s easier than ever to discover and onboard applications, reducing risk by securing access across the entire enterprise.
What is SailPoint’s approach to quickly integrating with and onboarding applications to provide fast time to value?
With SailPoint, customers are not forced into a compromise between time to value and security. SailPoint offers AI App Onboarding, Accelerated Application Management, and a library of SailPoint-built and battle-tested connectors to help customers get comprehensive visibility and compliance for their applications, access, and risks as quickly as days. With support for fine-grained entitlements beyond accounts, roles, and groups available out-of-the-box, SailPoint’s connectors also help streamline and automate the management of access and identities. All of these cut down on the upfront and ongoing time and cost associated with building and maintaining connectors using code and their ability to manage fine-grained entitlements and risks.
What AI/ML capabilities are built into SailPoint Identity Security Cloud?
SailPoint Identity Security Cloud integrates advanced AI and machine learning to drive smarter, faster identity decisions. Some of these capabilities include:
- Access Modeling – Recommends optimal roles by analyzing access patterns across your organization.
- Access Recommendations – Uses peer group comparisons to guide approvals and reduce decision fatigue.
- Identity Outliers – Detects abnormal access behavior with machine learning and highlights it for review.
- Role Insights & Mining – Accelerates role creation and refinement through intelligent clustering.
- Certification & Request Suggestions – Streamlines governance by surfacing recommended actions during reviews.
- SailPoint Harbor Pilot – An AI agent that helps you query identity data, build workflows, and uncover insights using natural language.
These AI-powered insights enable enterprises to enforce least-privilege access, reduce risk, and automate identity governance with confidence.
How does SailPoint secure AI and Non-Human Identities?
As a leader in identity security, SailPoint continues to lead the way with capabilities to secure agents and other non-human identities. SailPoint extends its robust identity security capabilities to agents and machines with Agent Identity Security, Machine Identity Security, and Data Access Security. These products give customers comprehensive discovery and visibility of agents and machines and their fine-grained application and data access, while leveraging SailPoint Identity Security Cloud’s best-in class connectivity, intelligence, lifecycle management, and governance capabilities to manage and secure them.
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