PRIVILEGE INFRASTRUCTURE
Secure privileged access everywhere
Discover, classify, and secure all privileged access across your entire enterprise with SailPoint's universal approach to privileged access management.
Challenge & solution
The privilege visibility gap
Privileged access holds the key to your organization's most sensitive business applications, systems, and data. However, this access is often decentralized across the enterprise and difficult to visualize, making it a challenge to secure what you can't see. Identifying and managing privileged access across a complex enterprise is a significant challenge. Many organizations rely on manual processes and legacy tools that can't keep pace, leaving high-risk blind spots.
Our approach:
SailPoint provides a unified, dynamic approach to privilege security, enabling you to:
Discover all privilege: Automatically discover all privileged access across cloud, infrastructure, applications, and data.
Classify by risk: Prioritize threats by intelligently classifying privilege based on risk.
Gain actionable insights: Visualize complex privilege pathways to proactively address risk.
Enforce least privilege: Reduce your attack surface by confidently enforcing least privileged access.
Benefits
Why SailPoint for privileged access?
SailPoint Privilege Security Posture Management goes beyond traditional PAM to give you the broad visibility and intelligence needed to secure privileged access in the modern enterprise—wherever it exists. Move from niche, fragmented processes to a dynamic, risk-based approach.
Discover all privilege
Eliminate manual discovery efforts
Automatically discover and identify all privileged entitlements across your entire IT ecosystem, including multi-cloud environments, business applications, and data. Get a complete and accurate picture of your privilege landscape.
Advanced capabilities
Take your identity security solution even further
SailPoint Identity Security Cloud goes beyond the basics to tackle complex identity challenges. These specialized, add-on solutions offer even greater control and intelligence for reducing risk and ensuring compliance.
Secure privileged access for every industry
Explore how SailPoint helps industry leaders build, manage, and maintain a least privilege access model and reduce risk.
Financial services
Protect sensitive financial data and align to strict compliance requirements like SOX and PCI DSS by controlling privileged access to critical systems.
Healthcare
Safeguard patient data (ePHI) and work towards HIPAA compliance by enforcing least privilege access to clinical and administrative applications.
Government
Protect sensitive government data and systems from internal and external threats with a modern approach to privileged access management.
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faq
Privilege Security Posture Management Questions
What is SailPoint Privilege Security Posture Management?
It's a modern approach to privileged access management that focuses on providing universal visibility and intelligent prioritization of privilege. It helps you discover, classify, and secure all privileged access, wherever it exists.
How is this different from traditional Privileged Access Management (PAM)?
Traditional PAM solutions are focused on IT infrastructure, which is important, but that only covers a subset of privilege in organizations. SailPoint's approach is designed for the modern enterprise, where privilege is spread across countless applications, cloud platforms, and data repositories. We provide visibility into all privilege, not just the "keys to the kingdom".
How does privilege discovery and classification work?
It leverages the power of SailPoint Identity Security Cloud to automatically scan your entire IT environment, identify entitlements that grant privileged access, and classify them based on their risk level (high, medium, or low).
What kind of insights can I get with privilege insights?
Privilege Insights, part of SailPoint Observability and Insights, helps you visualize how privileged access is granted and inherited. You can see the pathways to privilege, understand access risk across all identity types, and identify areas of over-privileged access.
Is this part of SailPoint Identity Security Cloud?
Yes, Privilege Discovery and Classification is a foundational component of SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, delivering a platform-scale approach to privilege management.
How do AI-powered entitlement descriptions improve privilege security?
Many entitlements have cryptic, technical names, making it difficult to know if they grant privileged access. SailPoint's generative AI-powered entitlement descriptions automatically translate these into clear, plain-language descriptions. This empowers your security team to instantly understand the access an entitlement provides, quickly identify what is privileged, and make smarter decisions to secure it.
How does this complement my existing Privileged Access Management (PAM) solution?
Traditional PAM tools are excellent for securing access to IT infrastructure and vaulting high-risk credentials. SailPoint's Privilege Security Posture Management complements this by providing broad visibility to discover and classify all privileged access across your entire enterprise, including in the cloud and SaaS applications where traditional PAM tools often lack visibility. It helps you see the complete picture of privilege so you can better manage the risk.
How does managing privileged access support a zero trust strategy?
A core principle of Zero Trust is "never trust, always verify." You cannot achieve a true Zero Trust architecture without first understanding and controlling all privileged access. By helping you discover and classify every privileged entitlement, SailPoint enables you to enforce the principle of least privilege at scale, a foundational requirement for any successful zero trust initiative.
What is a least privilege access model and how does SailPoint help achieve it?
A least privilege access model is a security concept where users are only granted the absolute minimum permissions required to perform their job functions. SailPoint helps you achieve this by first discovering and classifying privileged access across your enterprise. With this visibility, you can confidently remove excessive permissions and enforce a true least privilege model, drastically reducing your organization's risk.
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