IdentityIQ
Govern access with confidence and scale
SailPoint IdentityIQ® is the industry-leading identity governance and administration platform custom-built for complex enterprise and hybrid environments.
Deliver complete visibility across on-premises systems, cloud applications.
Automate access lifecycles, enforce stringent policy controls, and proactively mitigate identity-related security risks.
Built for the scale and technical complexity of modern global enterprises
Challenge and Solution
Enterprise access complexity & compliance pressure
Modern global organizations face an ever-growing volume of identities accessing sensitive corporate data across hybrid, cloud, and legacy architecture. Managing this landscape with manual processes or fragmented tools creates severe operational vulnerabilities.
Before SailPoint:
- Fragmented access silos: identity governance is scattered across disconnected systems and managed manually.
- Manual lifecycle bottlenecks: Slow onboarding, delayed deprovisioning, and orphaned accounts strain IT and expose risk.
- Manual compliance strain: Certification fatigue drives rubber-stamping, hidden SoD violations, and audit gaps.
After SailPoint:
- Unified access oversight: Centralize identity governance across legacy infrastructure, cloud platforms, databases, and enterprise applications
- Automated lifecycle management: Streamline user onboarding, transfers, and offboarding through policy-driven Joiner-Mover-Leaver (JML) workflows.
- Continuous compliance & audit readiness: Automate access certifications, enforce Separation of Duties (SoD), and maintain audit-ready governance trails.
Use Cases
Accelerate employee productivity, lower IT operational costs
Secure your remote workforce
Employees, contractors, and vendors routinely join the company, change roles, or depart. Manual fulfillment causes multi-day onboarding delays and leaves residual access active post-termination.
- New hires receive role-based access automatically on Day 1
- internal transfers have unnecessary entitlements revoked while gaining role-specific access
- Departing workers have access revoked in real time across all connected systems
End the cycle of audit findings
Regulatory standards (SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001) require periodic access reviews. Conducting reviews via spreadsheets is error-prone, time-consuming, and difficult to verify for auditors.
- Automate certification campaigns, delivering risk-scored access review tasks
- Review, approve, or revoke entitlements with a single click
- Generate an auditable compliance record automatically
Detect and prevent conflicts
In enterprise ERP systems, a single user possessing conflicting entitlements—such as creating vendor accounts and approving vendor payments—exposes the organization to severe fraud and compliance risks.
- Maintain regulatory compliance
- Discover and fix potential conflicts of interest
- Prevent fraud and data theft
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Put adaptive identity to work
Discover how SailPoint sets the standard for identity security, helping enterprises reduce risk, scale with confidence, and stay ahead of what's next. Our platform delivers measurable impact and real business outcomes by securing every identity across your enterprise.
Our customers
Many of the world's leading enterprises trust SailPoint
53% of the Fortune 500 and 28% of the Forbes Global 2000
We can simplify many actions and automate them while maintaining appropriate security and ensuring proper reporting, including audits.
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Frequently asked questions
Common questions about IdentityIQ
What is SailPoint IdentityIQ?
SailPoint IdentityIQ is an identity security platform custom-built for complex enterprises, delivering full lifecycle and compliance management across your entire IT environment. It gives you complete visibility and control of access for employees, partners, contractors, and non-human identities, including bots.
IdentityIQ sits at the center of your security and IT programs, extending governance to mission-critical applications and systems. Its core modules, including the Compliance Manager, Lifecycle Manager, Password Manager, and File Access Manager, work together to mitigate security risks, enforce policy, and automate manual IT tasks across sophisticated enterprise requirements.
How does IdentityIQ help with compliance and audit readiness?
IdentityIQ keeps you audit-ready by automating access certifications, policy management, and audit reporting, so you can demonstrate compliance with pre-defined reports. This lowers your overall compliance costs and reduces the burden on IT teams.
The platform strengthens compliance through several mechanisms:
- Separation-of-Duties enforcement: Prevents toxic combinations of access that lead to fraud, conflicts of interest, and audit deficiencies.
- Real-time monitoring: Tracks user access and flags policy violations with automated alerts.
- Historical visibility: Records how access was granted and removed over time, giving auditors a single source of truth.
How does IdentityIQ manage user access across hybrid environments?
IdentityIQ secures access to every application, mainframe, cloud infrastructure, and data resource across your hybrid IT environment, including legacy and proprietary apps. It brings all of these resources under a single governance platform for centralized visibility and control.
Connectivity comes from SailPoint's library of standards-based connectors, leveraging protocols such as REST, SCIM, JDBC, CSV, and LDAP.
How does SailPoint IdentityIQ use AI and automation?
IdentityIQ applies advanced AI and machine learning through SailPoint Predictive Identity to discover suspicious or anomalous access, maintain continuous compliance, and improve productivity. This intelligence turns overwhelming volumes of identity data into safe, actionable decisions.
Specific AI-driven capabilities include:
- Recommendation engine: Advises whether to approve or remove access based on peer group analysis, identity attributes, and access activity.
- Peer group analysis: Automatically builds peer groups using a patent-approved graphical approach to spot access that doesn't fit the norm.
- Outlier detection: Identifies individuals who deviate from expected access patterns and may pose additional risk.
How does IdentityIQ reduce the burden on IT teams?
IdentityIQ reduces IT workload by automating manual, repetitive tasks, including provisioning and deprovisioning access automatically when a user's role changes. This frees your teams to focus on high-impact, strategic work instead of routine access requests.
Two capabilities drive the biggest gains:
- Self-service access requests: Users request and manage access to resources independently, without waiting on IT.
- Self-service password management: Users reset passwords from any desktop browser or mobile device, eliminating costly helpdesk calls that can account for up to 40% of all helpdesk volume.
The result is faster provisioning, fewer errors, and lower operational costs across your identity program.
Strengthen your defenses with adaptive identity
Detect risk in real time. Continuously monitor identity behavior and surface threats the moment they appear.
Adjust access dynamically. Automatically tighten or grant permissions based on risk, context, and user behavior.
Protect every identity. Secure human, machine, and third-party access across your entire environment.