SailPoint vs. Lumos
SailPoint combines modern AI with proven identity security capabilities to automate governance of human and non-human access across applications and resources in one platform.
Overview
Why organizations choose SailPoint over Lumos
Organizations today increasingly look to identity security as an accelerant for their businesses and as a critical element in their security posture. This demands a strategic partner that can strike the balance between simplification and depth.
SailPoint delivers on this with a comprehensive identity security solution built to streamline and accelerate business processes while automating and enhancing compliance and security. With SailPoint, organizations can get rapid time to value with AI-powered and policy-aware and desired-state-aware role-based access control, fine-grained entitlement management, access requests, and access reviews for all identities – human and non-human. With SailPoint, organizations can also go further and accommodate nuanced use-cases such as non-employee, machine, and agent identities, where requirements and special workflows mean they can’t simply be treated as regular employee identities. With advanced capabilities and extensibility, SailPoint empowers customers to grow and evolve their identity security programs.
Lumos, on the other hand, markets table stakes like simple role and policy recommendations, access requests, and access reviews. While convenient, this can fail to provide a robust answer to “Who should have access to what, why should they have that access, and when should they have that access.”
Whether organizations value quick compliance or are ready for more, SailPoint streamlines and centralizes visibility, lifecycle management, access requests, access reviews, and more while providing proven AI and ML-based capabilities to manage access across all applications, resources, and identities in one platform. Wherever an organization is in its identity security journey, SailPoint has the platform and ecosystem to accommodate it, which is why it is the chosen identity security platform for thousands of customers, including over 50% of the Fortune 500.
Why SailPoint is the clear choice:
- Robust, extensible connectivity: SailPoint’s 250+ out-of-the-box, bi-directional governance connectors, large library of community-built connectors, highly flexible connector framework, and SailPoint Accelerated Application Management provide organizations with deep entitlement visibility and control for nearly any application.
- Enterprise-grade depth: SailPoint goes beyond simple peer and usage analysis to incorporate identity and business context to create cleaner, policy-aware RBAC. Configurable, automated workflows, advanced intelligence, and agentic capabilities help drive faster and smarter security and businesses.
- Proven scale and track record: SailPoint has a track record of success and trust from serving the world’s largest organizations with a modern SaaS platform.
At-a-glance comparison
SailPoint vs. Lumos
What is needed to deliver identity security | SailPoint | Lumos |
|---|---|---|
Connectivity | Comprehensive coverage across environments SailPoint provides hundreds of SailPoint-built OOTB and community-built connectors, a flexible connector framework, as well as Accelerated Application Management, to offer visibility, control, and time to value for nearly any system and identity type. | Coverage gaps outside of SaaS apps Lumos connectors focus on SaaS apps. Going beyond these or connecting to on-premises or hybrid environments can rely more on patterns-based or custom integration work and additional support to supplement. |
Identity security maturity | Robust, battle-tested identity security capabilities SailPoint provides robust identity and role modeling capabilities, streamlined and automated access requests, access reviews, lifecycle management, configurable workflows and automation, graph-based visualization, and AI/ML/agent-driven capabilities across those and more. | Less robust modeling and AI capabilities Lumos uses explicit data to build flat, non-hierarchical roles that can be harder to manage and risk over-privileging. AI-assisted capabilities are focused around access reviews, simple role mining, and queries. |
Proven scale and experience | Extensive track record of success across size and complexity SailPoint has thousands of customers and partners, hundreds of support staff, and significant R&D investment proven to accommodate scale and complexity. | Less experience and resources Lumos has only been in the market since 2022 with less money raised and invested than SailPoint spends in a year on R&D. |
Deeper comparison
Go deeper on how SailPoint goes beyond Lumos
Comprehensive coverage across environments
Modern identity security starts with connectivity to all applications and systems that an organization uses – SaaS, cloud infrastructure, on-prem, and data repositories – to power visibility and control over the fine-grained entitlements that underlie access. SailPoint has been a pioneer and leader in connectivity that powers this foundational capability for identity security.
SailPoint provides over 250 out-of-the-box, bi-directional connectors, alongside many more community-built connectors. SailPoint’s flexible framework supports low-code, pro-code, and agentic experiences to connect to and govern almost any application using standards-based connectors. SailPoint Accelerated Application Ma...
Robust, battle-tested identity security capabilities
Capabilities like lifecycle management, and access requests, and access reviews are table stakes for identity security. Modern identity security platforms, however, also need to be policy-aware and imbued with business and policy context, while working with organizations’ security stacks to surface and remediate risks quickly across all access and all identities – employee, non-employee, human, and non-human.
SailPoint’s robust identity data model builds complete pictures of identities and their access across complex environments and org structures through sophisticated identity correlation. Complementing this with AI/ML-driven role modeling that is policy and desired-state-aware, SailPoint h...
Extensive track record of success across size and complexity
Organizations, their business needs, IT requirements, and the compliance and threat landscape are constantly evolving. The complexity of managing employee, non-employee, and non-human identities and their access across SaaS, cloud, and on-prem systems is ever increasing. SailPoint has a proven track record and decades of experience delivering on these mandates with the most demanding customers as they and the landscape evolve.
SailPoint Identity Security Cloud is built on SailPoint Atlas, a modern, multi-tenant, SaaS platform that is serving thousands of customers and managed over 125 million identities and over 5 billion entitlements while processing over 35 billion SaaS account changes in t...
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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