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Get Familiar with the Cyber Basics

At a time when the majority of our life happens behind a screen, being “cyber smart” is more important than ever. After all, this year has already seen more than a fair share of attacks and breaches, and cyberattacks are becoming more sophisticated with more evolved bad actors cropping up each day. Luckily, there are several steps that we can take daily to mitigate risks an...

How Well Can You Protect Your AWS Cloud?

Moving critical workloads to Amazon Web Services (AWS) means significant cost savings and real productivity increases for your organization. The number of recent cybersecurity incidents involving external cloud assets has nearly tripled.1 Maximizing the benefits of AWS is important, but not at the expense of allowing your organization to be exposed to increased risk. Cyber...

Friday Quick-Take: What to Know About SailPoint’s Position in The Forrester Wave™: Identity Management and Governance, Q4 2021

Tic-tac-toe, three in a row! SailPoint was named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Identity Management and Governance, Q4 2021, for the third year in a row. 🎉 At SailPoint, we take what we do very seriously, so you can bet we are beyond proud to be named a leader. We also believe in taking the time to celebrate big wins [pause for celebratory dance]. Now that we’ve gotten t...

What Greek Mythology Can Teach Us About Present-Day Cybersecurity

The cybersecurity Pandora’s Box is still open, and it shows no signs of shutting down when it comes to our present-day digital posture. Last year, we found how the forced transition to remote work opened security and compliance gaps, effectively opening a cybersecurity Pandora’s Box. Presently, many enterprises are still grappling with the aftereffects of a hybrid workforc...

Legacy to Modern: Replacing Legacy Identity at PG&E

“This is one of the most impressive projects that I’ve seen in a very long time. Replacing Oracle and successfully migrating to a modern Identity platform is no small feat, but PG&E, Integral and SailPoint worked as a team.” – Harry Gould, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Alliances and Channels, SailPoint Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is one of the largest comb...

Tricker-Tweet: Identity Security 101 in 11 Tweets

What is Identity Security? You’ve heard the phrase, read long jargony articles about it, but you still aren’t quite clear on what it means. You’re in luck! Below we described identity security in 11 bite-sized tweets. Identity security (also known as identity governance and identity management) protects against cyber threats associated with providing technology access to a...

Why You Should Consider a Cyber Career

At SailPoint, we know that it’s important to love what you do, and love where you do it. If you’re interested in joining a company where you have an impact and can challenge yourself, check out our SaaS engineering and DevOps openings. Cybersecurity is one of the hottest sectors today, with new threats, technology and challenges emerging each day. And with that, there is a...

As the U.S. Government Moves Towards Zero Trust, SailPoint Continues To Support Key Federal Security Initiatives

Authored by Frank Briguglio, CISSP – Public Sector Strategist, SailPoint There’s been a lot of movement from officials to shore up the U.S. government’s security posture. In early September, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published the draft strategy “Moving the U.S. Government Towards Zero Trust Cybersecurity Principles” to identify critical security prioritie...

Friday Quick-Take: The Water Cooler Version of SailPoint’s Leadership in the Latest Industry Analyst Report

Pop the Waterloo sparkling water (we are big fans at the SailPoint HQ) or the real-deal bubbles, depending on what part of the world you are in, because we are celebrating this week! Recently, the SailPoint Crew (if you’re new here, that is what we like to call ourselves) was named Overall Leader in KuppingerCole’s Leadership Compass Identity as a Service-Identity Governanc...

Identity Discombobulated – Reorienting Identity in the Enterprise

Authored by Gary Savarino, Identity Strategist APAC Identity is not a new concept. Since the invention of the ‘digital identity,’ organizations have been tackling the challenges of identity with various approaches for decades. Identity capabilities, often generically categorized as Identity and Access Management (IAM) or Identity Management (IDM), represent multiple disti...