Stay up to date on our latest software release updates.
At SailPoint we’re committed to innovation. From product improvements to breakthrough technologies, this page will highlight our IdentityIQ and File Access Manager release updates, as well as provide a preview of some of the great new features our team is currently working on.
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CAM Integration
IdentityIQ is integrating with Cloud Access Manager to provide visibility into and governance over IaaS platforms.
Reporting
Reporting needs continues to be of utmost importance to a compliant governance program. Many key improvements are being made to IdentityIQ reports.
Self-service Password Reset Improvements
Improvements to the self-service password reset flow are being made to streamline the user experience.
Automated Role Discovery and Creation
Provides a seamless experience between role creation and role governance eliminating the need to export roles and insights via CSV.
Rapid Setup
Continuing to build on Rapid Setup, we are working on adding Identity Processing Thresholds for Rapid Setup and non-Rapid Setup lifecycle events. We are also making improvements to OOTB Attribute Synch that will be tied to Rapid Setup to allow for capabilities such as staged event processing and better traceability of attribute synch events.
Enhanced Lifecycle Management of Privileged Access
IdentityIQ Privileged Access Management module is being improved to automate lifecycle management of the assignment and ownership of privileged access management.
Support Business Justifications for Access Requests and Approvals
Administrators can optionally require that access requests and access approvals to specific roles, applications, or entitlements be accompanied by a business justification.
Improved Active Directory Aggregation
AD aggregations will use the GUID instead of DistinguishedName as the uniqueID for improved accuracy.
Classifications for Sensitive/Protected Data Access
Protect the security and integrity of your access governance practice by using custom classifications to categorize and flag sensitive access. Classifications can alert you when requesting, granting, or approving roles or entitlements will give the user access to sensitive, protected, or otherwise significant data.
Integration with File Access Manager
Bring key data governance features to the IdentityIQ business user by integrating with File Access Manager. This integration puts a Data Governance menu and widgets on the IdentityIQ dashboard, providing direct access to the File Access Manager website and giving users the context needed to make informed access decisions.
Automated Approvals in Access Reviews
Add efficiency and speed to your approval process by allowing automatic approval of access based on recommendations from IdentityAI.
Localization of Recommendations
Expand the global use of IdentityAI recommendations for access requests or certifications, by presenting recommendation information in English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian.
Certification Enhancements
Make the certification process clearer and more transparent for both reviewers and users by requiring reviewers to include comments when revoking access in a certification, and by showing more entitlement details to reviewers about the roles they are reviewing.
Support for Google Cloud Platform
Hosting IdentityIQ within Google Cloud’s IaaS Platform is now a supported option.
Alerts Expansion
New SCIM API for alerts, allowing the creation of new alerts (POST) and checking the status of existing alerts (GET).
Access Management Enhancement
A new Quicklink configuration setting (“What can members remove?”) gives you flexibility and control over what users can view and remove on the Remove Access tab, when managing user access.
Expanded 508/WCAG Compliance
The Edit Preferences page is now 508/WCAG compliant, and is enhanced with a user-friendly multi-tab format.
Expanded OAuth Support
IdentityIQ now supports OAuth on all REST endpoints within IdentityIQ, including the Plugin Framework.
Artificial Intelligence for Guiding Access Decisions
Gain deeper visibility into managing the risks associated with user access, using the artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities of SailPoint’s AI Services. A simple, out-of-the-box integration with AI Services gives you the power of artificial intelligence insights, providing guidance for decisions on access reviews and access request approvals.
Automatic Deprovisioning of Expired Roles and Entitlements, with Notifications
Add security and efficiency to certifications by enabling the automatic deprovisioning of roles and entitlements when a temporary exception period expires. Manage time-limited access proactively by enabling email notification of impending sunsetting and deprovisioning of roles and entitlements.
File Attachments in Access Requests
Add essential attachments such as training certificates or notarized authorizations to access requests. You can make attachments can optional or required, and use rules to define specific requirements.
Responsive Approvals – UI Enhancements
An expanded default view for Approvals provides full information for all approval items, making it quick and simple for approvers to review and process access requests from a single page, without having to open each item individually to see details and take action.
Plugin Framework Enhancements
Expanded plugin features include the ability to leverage classes contained in plugins from any area or feature of IdentityIQ where BeanShell can be used (such as rules, workflow steps, and scriptlets), and support for forms in the plugin configuration UI, giving you more ways to present complex or dynamic options in the plugin’s configuration page.
New Context-Sensitive Help
New context-sensitive help to Targeted Certifications, Access Reviewes, and Access Requests.
Changes to Logging
Support for version 2 of Log4j adds new logging capabilities (specifically, change listening), and changes the logging configuration file name and logging syntax.
Support for Piped Commands in the IIQ Console
Filter or redirect IIQ console output using piping.
OpenJDK Support
IdentityIQ version 8.0 supports OpenJDK.
New Reports for Capabilties
See how access to features within IdentityIQ are assigned to identities in your system, using new reports mapping identities and capabilities.
End user Experience Enhancements
Four of IdentityIQ’s most commonly-used user interfaces have been updated to be simpler, more intuitive, streamlined, and mobile-friendly: Access Reviews, Access Requests, Work Items, and Managing User Access.
Accessibility: 508 and WCAG 2.0 Compliance
Users with disabilities such as visual and motor impairments now have enhanced accessibility in IdentityIQ’s UI, which follows worldwide WCAG 2.0 and United States 508 Compliance guidelines for keyboard navigation, focus control, screen reader support, and color contrast.
Certification Enhancements
Expanded options for self-certification give finer-grained control over who may validate their own access.
New Certification Type: Targeted Certification
Easily build flexible, full-featured certifications from an intuitive and user-friendly new UI that gives users more control over who, what, and when to certify.
Environment Monitoring for Hosts and Applications
Track the health of both cloud-based and on-premise IdentityIQ environments and enjoy better visibility into the state of your environment using new monitoring and troubleshooting features.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Governance
Add robust governance of Robotic Process Automation (RPA or “bot”) identities using new controls and attributes to categorize identities by type.
Credential Cycling for Privileged Access Management
Make privileged access more secure and convenient by enabling applications that require a login and password to obtain that information directly from a PAM source at runtime.
Effective Access SOD
Enforce separation of duties for effective entitlements using a purpose-built new policy type.
Process Resiliency
New resiliency features help ensure that cloud-based implementations of IdentityIQ are resilient to the dynamic nature of cloud-hosted environments, and help on-premise implementations minimize the impact of outages, database failures, et cetera.
Bulk Management of Applications
Onboard and manage applications in bulk using a new task that facilitates simple creation and maintenance of multiple applications.
Task Management
Enjoy better visibility and control of tasks using a new new task management administrator UI. Monitor task status and performance, choose specific hosts for running tasks, and gather stack trace details.
Application Maintenance Windows
Avoid unexpected downtime by setting maintenance windows for applications; you can specify when applications are taken offline for maintenance, preventing any interactions with the application’s target system.
SecurityIQ Target Collection
Gain a more complete a more complete picture of the access users have on unstructured resources like network file shares, SharePoint, cloud file stores, et cetera, by aggregating unstructured target permissions data from SecurityIQ into IdentityIQ.
SecurityIQ Alert Collector
Share valuable contextual information about processes between IdentityIQ and SecurityIQ by aggregating activity alert records from SecurityIQ, and use this data to trigger workflows, certifications, and/or notifications in IdentityIQ in response to those alerts.
Policy Violation UI Enhancements
Processing violations is easier and more intuitive with a new Policy Violations user interface.
Access Review UI Enhancements
All Access Review UIs now use the enhanced and streamlined UI that was introduced in release 7.1.
Track my Requests UI Enhancements
New enhanced, responsive UIs make tracking requests simpler and more intuitive for requesters and request owners.
Plugin Framework Enhancements
Enhanced functionality for plugins includes internationalization, snippet support, Angular support, and the ability to implement your plugin as an IdentityIQ widget.
Multi-factor Authentication
Make your IdentityIQ access more secure by adding multi-factor authentication.