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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...

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...

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...

Nationwide Building Society Meets Business Continuity Plans with Identity Security

Nationwide Building Society is the largest mutual building society in the United Kingdom, providing household savings and mortgages to its members. Sarah Harber, Senior Manager for Access Management at Nationwide, shares her organization’s identity security story, driven by a need to ensure technology evolves alongside the business. Sarah shares that identity is part of Na...

Beach Energy Builds Sustainable Identity Security

Beach Energy is Australia’s premier oil and gas exploration and production company. Responsible for delivering sustainable energy to communities, Beach Energy supplies around 15% of natural gas requirements for Australia’s eastern states. Aaron Finnis, Information Security Manager at Beach Energy, talks with SailPoint about why identity security was so important when buildi...

BJ’s Wholesale Club Delivers Savings and Automation with Identity Security

BJ’s Wholesale Club has built a robust infrastructure around access and identity rooted in the automation of manual processes. Steve Breton, Senior Manager of Identity and Access Management at BJ’s recently shared his perspective on the impact automation has had. Steve’s primary focus has been on developing automation to help improve the employee experience, especially the...

Everybody In: General Motors Takes Us on a Ride with Identity Security

Authored by Katherine Cola With over 100 years of automotive experience, General Motors (GM) is familiar with adapting their business to meet evolving security challenges head-on. Tray Wyman, Director of Identity and Access Management at GM recently shared the important role identity security plays in their organization’s strategy. Minimizing certification fatigue, levera...

Navigate 2021 – Round Two: The Identity Security Awards

As Navigate ‘21 begins today in EMEA, we are thrilled to celebrate a new group of identity security award winners. The competition across our amazing customers was tough, especially considering the heightened focus on identity security strategies coming out of last year. Our customers truly understand the importance of securing digital identities and are energized about tak...

SailPoint Selected for NIST Zero Trust Implementation Project to Mitigate National Cybersecurity Risk

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...

The Untold Risk of Automatic Remediation of Cloud Access

Authored by: Lori Robinson It’s inevitable that you will run across a situation where the cloud access configured in your environments is misconfigured or over provisioned. This is to be expected due to the high velocity, large volume, and wide variety of changes that are constantly taking place in cloud environments. Even with the most carefully crafted governance framewo...