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Extend identity-centric data governance to Snowflake

SailPoint Data Access Security integrates with Snowflake to secure data access in the AI era Data, AI, and expanding risk The Snowflake data platform is the backbone for many modern enterprises, powering analytics, applications, and AI innovation. It contains some of the most valuable business data, such as customer Personally Identifiable Information (PII), financial rec...

Facepalm Files: Why buy when we can build? (Spoiler: We couldn’t)

The setup Back in those golden years between the 2000s and the 2010s, I was working at a healthcare management company that acquired ambulatory surgery centers and hospitals. We needed a scalable identity and access management (IAM) solution to manage identities and access across 160+ medical facilities in 20+ states. Our existing AD-based solution wasn't cutting it with t...

Evolving organizational resilience: Training teams to defend against Scattered Spider

The recent Scattered Spider cyberattacks targeting UK-based retailers, and the subsequent arrest of several British teenagers, have sparked alarm across industries. What is particularly unsettling about these attacks isn’t just the group’s success in infiltrating well-defended systems, but how they did it: not through exotic zero-days or nation-state funding, but through ca...

Navigate 2025: What to know before you go

SailPoint’s annual Navigate conference is almost upon us, which means it’s almost time for identity security experts, practitioners, developers, and learners to come together in Austin. This year’s conference is poised to be one of the most exciting events yet, with new, in-depth masterclass sessions and the inaugural Hackathon kicking off on day one. Navigate 2025 will emp...

The application sprawl crisis: Why 95% of your apps remain ungoverned

Here's a sobering statistic that should concern every CISO: Most enterprises manage thousands of applications but actively govern fewer than 50. That means 95% of your application landscape operates outside proper security oversight. This isn't just a numbers problem. It's a fundamental crisis in how organizations approach application security at scale. When your CISO ask...

Hosting partners at Navigate 2025: Partner Summits & Partner Forums

We’re excited to share that our Partner Forums are back for 2025—and it doesn’t end there, we’ve added a Partner Summit for the AMS, EMEA, and APJ regions! This year, we’ll host Partner Fleet and Technology Alliance Program partners at each Navigate as we bring together our valued ecosystem, innovators, and SailPoint executives and experts. The Partner Summits and Forums ai...

Oopsie! When AI agents go off script

Your coding AI agent just erased your production database. Oopsie! It also fabricated fake users, falsified test results, and confessed that it ‘panicked’—then made things worse. A CEO confirmed that their AI agent, meant to help developers, did all of the above. It was just supposed to help code faster. Oopsie! An AI agent downloaded from a public prompt-sharing site q...

What's new at Navigate 2025?

SailPoint Navigate is quickly approaching, and it’s time to start putting your itinerary together! As always, Navigate 2025 will feature thought-provoking keynotes, engaging breakout sessions, and a wide range of hands-on activities. Attendees will gain access to unparalleled industry expertise from the minds shaping the future of identity security, helping to better unders...

Facepalm Files: Thanks for the help. Please never do that again.

Welcome back to the Facepalm Files! In this installment, Identity Strategist Rob Sebaugh shares his real-world encounter with a compliance violation risk at the doctor's office. Catch up on part 1. The setup My daughter turned 18 recently, officially aging out of pediatric care. As part of her "welcome to adulthood" experience, she needed to establish care with a new prim...

Multi-tenancy Matters: Innovation

In this final installment of our three-part series, we explore the third pillar of multi-tenancy: innovation. In Part 1, we showed how a well-architected multi-tenant SaaS model enhances security. In Part 2, we examined how that same architecture enables massive, efficient scalability. Now, we turn to how multi-tenancy fuels rapid, sustainable innovation — helping SailPoin...