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World Backup Day

It seems that there is a holiday for everything now, including the identity security industry. From Day of the Programmer to Data Privacy Day, the cyber world takes a chance to celebrate and educate audiences about the crucial things surrounding cybersecurity and much more. So, it’s no surprise that we celebrate World Backup Day today. So, first question: What is a backup?...

Identity Security: The Foundation of a Successful Cybersecurity Strategy

Identity has transformed from a back-office function to becoming one of the most critical components of a company’s transformation strategy. But how can your company adapt if you do not know who has access to what systems, how they got that access, whether it is still relevant, and what they are doing with that access? Companies need a comprehensive intelligent identity pl...

Identity Security, SpaceX, Ephemeral Entitlements, and Data

It’s a time-worn adage: “What goes up must come down.” This took on a new meaning this past winter. On February 3, 2022, SpaceX launched 49 Starlink satellites. A day later, they were hit by a geomagnetic storm. By February 8th, SpaceX reported that 40 of the original 49 would reenter the Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrate, or they would soon. These precious resources last...

Yapı Kredi Improves Performance & Efficiency Through Enhanced Identity Security

Yapı Kredi is the third-largest private bank in Turkey and has been experiencing fragmented identity processes. Because of this, they decided to review its identity and authorization infrastructure. In the past, Yapı Kredi had different teams operating in siloes. This inevitably stretched the organization and drove it to reorganize its overall structure. The identity and a...

IdentityTV: Protecting Organisations Against Tomorrow’s Threats

In the last 18 months, market dynamics have accelerated a series of trends that have changed almost every aspect of today’s modern enterprise. If the pandemic taught us anything, enterprises must ensure business continuity – no matter what. Work from home became table stakes. Now, enterprises are starting to think bigger: “Operations Anywhere,” where workers not only work f...

SailPoint Spotlight: Women in Cybersecurity

Authored by Stacy Lange March is Women’s History Month and a time to focus on all of the fantastic accomplishments women have made in the world. Cybersecurity has become a critical backbone for any organization, big or small. We must realize the essential role diversity plays in the cybersecurity workforce with that importance. Today women only comprise 20% of the cybersec...

Hot Jobs: SailPoint Professional Services

Over the past two years, people all over the world adjusted their priorities, needs, and values regarding work and the workplace, and droves of workers left their employers to better align personal and professional goals. Two years later, job seekers are flooding back to a market full of opportunities to meet their needs and match their values. With seemingly limitless opti...

Women in Identity Security: Michelle Rascati

From physics and astronomy to AI and machine learning, Michelle Rascati, Senior Software Engineer, has had an eventful path to identity security. In this Women in Identity Security blog installment, Michelle details her way to AI and ML and how SailPoint’s culture has provided her with the tools she needs to succeed. How did you come to your identity security career? I’ve...

The Core Components of Identity Security

Over the last few months, organizations have seen a shift in managing and securing identities, and it has moved well beyond human capacity. In order to do this effectively, organizations need artificial intelligence and machine learning at the core of their identity solution to automate the discovery, management, and control of all user access throughout their digital life ...

One Year Later with SailPoint’s Idea-Sharing Portal

One year ago, we launched our global Ideas Portal, a place for the SailPoint community to share ideas, observations and even vote on product updates and modifications. We essentially created a product democracy, driven in part that it is always my, and SailPoint’s, No. 1 priority to listen to our customers. So, we put a more formal and transparent process in place to listen...