Education
Modernize your institution: Secure every identity
Strengthen your defenses with an adaptive platform built for education.
Challenge & solution
Solving education complexity
Your university thrives on collaboration, but its dynamic, decentralized nature creates significant identity risks. Manual processes can’t keep pace with the constant flow of users and complex roles, leading to security gaps, an overburdened IT team, and threats to sensitive data.
Key challenges
Managing complex lifecycles of users with multiple affiliations, such as students who are also employees.
Onboarding thousands of users manually each semester creating delays and security risks.
Lack a centralized view and control of identities and access across campus systems.
Protecting sensitive student PII and high-value research data from unauthorized access.
Secure the non-human identities-service accounts, APIs, and AI agents that attackers actively exploit.
Gaining control over unsanctioned "shadow AI" tools that expose institutional data.
An automated, intelligent approach:
Seamlessly manage multi-role affiliations to ensure access is always correct and adheres to least privilege.
Automate the full identity lifecycle so every user gets the right access on Day One.
Confidently manage and govern access across your entire environment with complete visibility and control.
Simplify FERPA and GDPR compliance with automated access reviews and audit-ready reporting.
Enforce consistent governance across all human and non-human identities from a single control plane.
Discover and control the use of unsanctioned AI tools across your institution.
Benefits
Empower IT, enable learning, mitigate risk
Overcome complex identity challenges with a scalable platform that streamlines access, protects sensitive data, and reduces IT workload.
Ready from Day One and beyond
Automate provisioning and access changes across the user lifecycle.
Customer Stories
Higher education institutions trust SailPoint for identity security
SailPoint has been a very good, solid solution for us. It fits perfectly into our digital transformation journey and has positioned us for long-term success.”
Key offerings
Take your identity security solution even further
The SailPoint Identity Security Cloud delivers the essentials for most organizations. SailPoint also offers advanced capabilities for specific needs.
Use Cases
Identity security use cases for education
Student lifecycle automation
Automate onboarding and offboarding with secure, day-one access.
Learn moreCentralize identity with multiple authoritative sources
Create a single source of truth across all identity sources for visibility and control.
Learn moreThird-party & researcher access
Grant secure, time-bound access to external collaborators and partners.
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faq
Frequently asked questions
Can SailPoint connect to custom, in-house applications?
Yes. Whether built in-house, with strategic collaborators, or using standard, open-source tools, our integrations help you ensure that the right users have the right access to the right systems, resources and applications. Learn more.
How do you manage and secure the lifecycle of third-parties?
SailPoint Non-Employee Risk Management offers a comprehensive solution for the creation and management of sponsored guest accounts. It enables organizations to manage various types of sponsored accounts, such as contractors, consultants, alumni, guest faculty, volunteers, onsite guests, and freelancers, with distinct configurations tailored to each type.
How do you manage multiple personas such as a student worker or faculty taking classes?
There are multiple ways SailPoint can help manage multiple personas and affiliations. For example, building an RBAC Program with SailPoint enables you to manage a single identity’s access across a diverse set of applications and systems. Read more: Managing multiple-role identities in higher education.
How do universities match identities to prevent duplicates with SailPoint?
SailPoint consolidates data from multiple sources and creates a central identity repository. In the process, we use a fuzzy matching technique to identify duplicate users and accounts, even if the data isn’t always perfect. Think of it like a search engine that understands typos and variations. We are looking for close matches and depending on the uniqueness, we can recommend a match or raise a notification to conduct further analysis. Learn more.
How does SailPoint complement Active Directory?
While Active Directory’s access control focuses primarily on user authentication, SailPoint identity security governs and manages access rights across various applications and systems, providing advanced features like access request workflows, automated provisioning, and compliance controls, making it ideal for complex enterprise environments where granular access management is crucial. Learn more.
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