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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...

Guararapes, Netbr and SailPoint Bring Identity Security to Life

Grupo Guararapes is the largest fashion group in Brazil and the parent company of the Lojas Riachuelo retail chain. Riachuelo has more than 38 thousand employees and 315 stores across Brazil. With distributed systems, complex data repositories, fixed and temporary workers, and thousands of privileged credentials, the Guararapes Group needed to ensure strong identity securit...

Deploying a New Region Faster Than You Can Bake a Potato

Authored by Justin Watkinson, Senior Staff DevOps Engineer One trait I appreciate about the DevOps team at SailPoint is an attitude towards “the other CI” — Continuous Improvement. I believe it’s a habit of highly effective DevOps teams to be able to get things out to production quickly, but also be able to quickly iterate and improve upon that solution, striving for quali...

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...