Mark McClain

Today’s identity security challenges are massively different than they were even a handful of years ago, never mind a decade or two ago. The way we work has evolved. The centrality of identities to both the enablement and security of today’s enterprise has increased significantly. The threat landscape is more dynamic than ever, and nearly always comes down to a compromised ...

One of the things that really energized me when thinking about our next chapter under Thoma Bravo was the promise of accelerated innovation to the benefit of our rapidly growing enterprise customer base. You’ll see us make some moves in 2023 (and beyond) to increase our velocity of innovation, delivering transformative value in identity security. Today is one step forward ...

Change. That one small word tends to elicit big reactions. Some say, “Change is good.” Others think change is scary. There’s no limit to the feelings and connotations associated with it. In the context of SailPoint’s next chapter, as we return to the private markets with the official closing of the Thoma Bravo acquisition, change is powerful and transformative. The impact ...

This post originally appeared from Mark McClain’s LinkedIn article series, Life & Work. The views and opinions expressed in this blog are solely owned by the author. Early in my life, I was introduced to a list of characteristics that were penned by the ancient Saint Paul, a first-century contemporary and follower of Jesus. It always fascinated me that this list—Love, Joy,...

“Leading by example” takes practice. It’s like muscle memory – when you repeat something over and over, it becomes second nature. As a business leader, I take this form of “exercise” very seriously. If I want my team to embrace a new way of thinking or to re-commit to an existing cultural value, I want, and need, to show them the way by living and breathing it myself. This...

We’ve hit an identity security inflection point over the last few months. This was largely brought about as more organizations paid closer attention to how they were connecting their workers to the systems and data needed do to their job – particularly after last years’ massive pivot to “working from anywhere”. It wasn’t just a keener eye on how efficiently workers were giv...