This blog is part one in a three-part series exploring “What is SaaS Management?” In this installment we’ll dig into the rise of SaaS and its incremental impact on identity security and how IT teams are being impacted. If there’s one thing that every modern enterprise has in common, it’s that software as a service (SaaS) is absolutely everywhere. As companies embrace digit...
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Remember that age-old SAT question: “if two speeding trains are heading in the opposite directions at different speeds on the same track, how long will it take for them to collide?” In many ways, this feels like the reality of enterprise IT today when it comes to SaaS application adoption. The use of SaaS applications continues to speed up, but the ability for companies to ...
A lot of the security issues that organizations face can be linked to employees. Whether it is abuse of systems or access credentials that have been compromised. People have always been the first line of defense in security. Organizations need to have a clear view over who has access to what in addition to the other security measures in place such as firewalls and applicati...
| Mike Kiser |
When I was seventeen, I played one of the greatest roles of my life: “Mark Jannell.” A younger student who we’ll call “Tim” (not his name, of course) had just started at my high school, and after knowing me for several weeks, asked my name. Amused that he had forgotten it, I vowed not to tell him. I stepped away from the lunch table for a few minutes, and as I headed back,...
Last year, on the day after April Fool’s Day, I wrote that I had heard the word “unprecedented” used daily. At that time, we were approximately half a month into lockdown, COVID-19 changed the world overnight, and we didn’t know how long the shutdown would last. And this was no “April Fool’s.” As I reflect a year later, “resilience” is now a routine part of our vernacular....
In today’s #WomeninIdentity feature, we have Linda Hernandez, who works on our Revenue Enablement team! Read her story below, and read more Women in Identity features here. Before we dive in, can you give us a little background about who you are and how you got to SailPoint? The journey to the “top” is never like you plan it to be. I experienced the coined term “identity ...
Meet SailPoint customer, the University of Victoria. They are a globally top ranked public research university. When it was time for them to replace their legacy Oracle tool, they looked for an identity solution that could handle their changing business needs. As is typical in higher education, the University of Victoria has a large number of users – 23,000 students and 6,0...
| Abby Payne |
On March 8, SailPoint celebrated International Women’s Day. This day of reflection, education and action brings the SailPoint Crew together annually to surface conversations that carry us forward year-round. As I reflect back on the conversations we had across SAIL, supporting women isn’t just a celebration or a one-day event – it’s a call to action, both personally and pro...
The financial services industry is tasked with securing critical applications and data, and as such, is held to the highest standards with regards to regulation and compliance. While this is good news for the general public, it can be challenging for these organizations as they struggle to mitigate risk while remaining agile. Orrstown Bank came to SailPoint for an Identity ...
Christine Whitlock, Product Manager at SailPoint, has been on our crew for 2.5 years, but her identity career began long before that. After graduating from The University of Texas Austin, she was still deciding what she wanted to do with her degree in management of information systems. Though she wasn’t in search of a job in identity, it found her by way of a consulting job...