Authored by Ana Hilstad, Senior Product Marketing Manager The principle The principle (and practice) of least privilege requires that users should be granted access only to the data and operations of applications that are absolutely needed to perform their jobs. Furthermore, users should only have the minimal amount of access, for only the amount of time required to execu...
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Authored by Steve Bradford, SVP, EMEA In December 2022, the European Union’s updated Network and Information Security Directive, more commonly known as NIS2, came into force. This means that EU Member States will have until 17 October 2024 to put this new law into their national legislation. With just one year to go, businesses must put their foot to the floor when it come...
Our heritage is defined by our ability to shape and reshape identity security to fit the constantly changing needs of our customers. Grady Summers laid that out clearly in his recent blog post. This is what it takes to be the leader – you’ve got to lead, you’ve got to stay on your front foot, you’ve got to constantly push the envelope. So, when I sit here and think about o...
Authored by Mike Conti, Product Marketing Manager Leonardo da Vinci once said, “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” So, when KuppingerCole’s Executive View report stated that SailPoint’s Non-Employee Risk Management is “…a simple package that does a good job of managing non-employee identities”, we were ecstatic. Why? Simplicity wins in the long run. There’s alre...
SailPoint has defined the modern identity security space. SailPoint’s first product allowed organizations to attest that access was correct, for compliance reasons. We soon added the ability to provision and deprovision access, which improved compliance but also boosted productivity. Five years ago, we began to invest in artificial intelligence—before it was the buzzword th...
We get it, identity security can be confusing. With so much information readily available, it’s hard to discern what information is accurate, and what information is trustworthy. That’s why we have created the Identity Hub. SailPoint’s Identity Hub was created with one goal in mind: to deliver the go-to place for identity security education and thought leadership. No matte...
Navigate 2023 is just months away and the SailPoint crew is buzzing with excitement. Kicking off in Austin, TX, on October 9, our annual conference will center on exploring the next frontier of identity security. What do we mean by that? Well, identity security is in a state of constant evolution and rapid growth to meet the endless changes happening across the modern-ente...
SailPoint is always looking for new technologies that can help us improve our products and better serve our customers. One area that has gained significant traction in recent years—and has been attracting mainstream attention in recent months—is Large Language Models (LLMs). In this blog, we’ll delve into LLMs: defining them, pinpointing their technological blind spots, and...
In a previous blog, I talked about a couple of “forcing functions” that dramatically increased the relevance and criticality of identity security in securing the modern enterprise. The most obvious was the pandemic and in short succession, the significant acceleration in a trend that we saw percolating within the enterprise for the last handful of years: digital transformat...
Today, healthcare organizations manage a wide range of identities beyond employees. Contractors, affiliate physicians, travel nurses, flex nurses, and medical students make up a large percentage of their workforce and manually reviewing and granting access can be error-prone and extremely time-consuming. However, automating secure access and simplifying onboarding can bring...