Jackie Gilbert

A recent Forbes feature, "The Year of the Mega Breach," caught my attention last week. It includes a slideshow of 2009's largest security breaches, and concludes that this year alone, more personal information was exposed through data breaches than ever before. The article appeared amid news about a T-Mobile data breach, and Health Net and Blue Cross Blue Shield admitting...

Beginning in 2010, energy producers and distributors face a looming challenge - to become "auditably compliant" with the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards by the July 1, 2010 deadline. Developed by NERC, an independent, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to ensure the reliability of the bulk power system in North America, and given the force of law by the Federal...

This week, several members of the SailPoint team made the annual trek to the industry's biggest security event, the RSA Conference. As always, the conference was a high-paced mix of conference sessions, technology debates, and meetings with customers and partners. I'm always interested in what themes get the most play at RSA. This year, I'd have to say that "the...

I read a very interesting Forrester report last week commissioned by Microsoft and RSA. It was based on a survey of 305 IT security decision makers and assesses data security practices at enterprises around the world. A key takeaway from the report is the fact that compliance, not security, drives security budgets. I don't think this will shock anyone, but...

A few weeks ago, I was out on the West Coast talking to companies about privileged user management and identity governance with our technology partner, Cyber-Ark. This is an area of real concern for lots of organizations - and rightfully so. During our meetings, we exchanged real-world "horror stories" about insider fraud and sabotage. One of the most interesting ones...

Last week, the SailPoint team attended the Burton Gartner Catalyst show in San Diego. The event was very well attended, and it presented a great opportunity to hear from the analysts and connect with our customers and prospects in between sessions and during our Mad Hatter's identiTEA Party hospitality suite. On day one, keynote speaker John Seely Brown kicked off...

SailPoint recently announced the results of our 2010 Market Pulse Survey focused on employees' attitudes toward company data. We got some pretty startling results from the more than 1,500 workers polled in the U.S. and Great Britain: Half of the respondents said they would take company data with them when leaving a job. A full 27% admitted they would take...

Several members of the SailPoint team traveled up to Chicago last week for one of our regional SailPoint Users Group meetings. The meeting was very well attended by SailPoint customers across mid-western states, with a few customers joining us from as far away as North Carolina and Georgia. These events bring together users spanning diverse backgrounds, IT environments and industries...

An article by Mathew Schwartz of InformationWeek, "Hackers, Insiders Behind Most Identity Theft," caught my attention this week - not because it highlights a new risk for organizations, but because it illustrates the old adage, "the more things change, the more they stay the same." The article recaps a study by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) of 662 data...

I've been at the RSA Conference all week, so I just noticed an intriguing news item from The Register on Monday. The article details survey results from an unnamed security vendor, concluding that one-third of workers are open to bribes for data theft. It's beyond the scope of this blog to speculate on the statistical validity of a poll of...