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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...

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...

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...

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...

Q&A with Nick Shevelyov, Chief Technology & Risk Strategist at Silicon Valley Bank

Security and privacy have always been important to Nick Shevelyov. One of his earliest memories as a boy was having to walk to the sink and run the water faucet as a way to confound any surveillance bugs within their Moscow apartment. He carried those childhood memories into his cybersecurity career. After 14 years as Chief Security Officer at Silicon Valley Bank (taking 1...

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...