Authored by Barak Kaufman The explosion of SaaS continues and has become a major challenge for enterprise security teams. Organizations now store nearly all of their most sensitive corporate data in cloud applications. Additionally, the use of shadow SaaS applications (hidden from IT) is a widespread issue. According to SailPoint’s research, most organizations have 3.5-4x...
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Authored by Doug Fierro A fundamental question we have been helping customers with for years is also a very basic one: who has access to what? This includes access to environments, applications, systems, and repositories across the IT landscape from an IT perspective. This was not a simple task before the accelerated growth of cloud adoption. The complexities of how cloud ...
Authored by Alex Gambill Preventing access risks is like building defenses for a castle. There are ramparts that form a perimeter and a moat to deter invaders because it’s a lot easier to keep enemies out than to remove them once they’re in. Trying to rid a system of risks after threats have been detected is analogous to building a moat around a castle after the enemy is i...
Authored by Katherine Cola Nelnet, Inc. is a student loan servicing company specializing in consumer finance, telecommunications, and K-12 and higher education. With offices around the globe and 6,500+ associates, Nelnet has built a robust identity security program. Nelnet’s identity program set out to solve challenges around user onboarding, offboarding, and access certi...
Authored by Karen Kelvie, Partner Marketing at Thales, and Taylor Wiggins, Product Marketing Manager – Technology Alliance at SailPoint In the world of tech, we love to future gaze. But while imagining potential new developments is exciting, it can be equally helpful to think about the reverse: How would things be different if certain technologies didn’t exist? For exampl...
Authored by Frank Briguglio, CISSP | SailPoint Public Sector Strategist Digital transformation and IT modernization are increasing the adoption of cloud data and applications at a pace never seen before. Now, our borders are open to remote users and non-traditional mission partners, which have dissolved traditional network boundaries rendering them ineffective. Today, to b...
Authored by Katherine Cola Millicom is a leading provider of cable, mobile and high-speed broadband services throughout Latin America. John Masserini, Global Chief Information Security Officer at Millicom, recently sat down with SailPoint to explain why identity is central to his organization’s overall security strategy. While initially driven by compliance requirements, ...
Authored by Stephen Bradford, SVP EMEA, SailPoint It was in GoldenEye that ‘M’ (a very modern incarnation played by Judi Dench), derided Bond as a ‘relic of the Cold War’ and a ‘dinosaur.’ Her sobriquet of Bond is likely something he wore with pride but let’s face it—the Bond incarnations of Connery, Moore, Lazenby, and Craig have not kept up with their computer skills. T...
Authored by: Casey Herman, PwC Partner, ESG Leader; Brad Bauch, PwC Principal, Advisory; and David Manks, SailPoint Technology Alliances & Partner Marketing If there was any doubt about the importance of cybersecurity in the utility industry, one needs simply to look at the recent news. Already this year, there have been two major breaking stories: In May, a cyberattack sh...
Outside of our comfort zone is a place that most of us don’t like to be. That isn’t the case for SailPoint’s Mariah Finleon, Director of Inside Sales. In this Women in Identity blog, we sit down with Mariah and learn about her journey to identity security and who helped her get here. Tell us a little about yourself and your career journey. My career journey began in the r...