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Orrstown Bank Finds Savings with SailPoint

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 ...

Three Questions with Christine Whitlock, Product Manager at SailPoint

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...

Security Career Q&A with Richard Balducci, CISO at Global Medical Device Outsourcing Manufacturer Integer

In this Q&A, we speak with Richard Balducci, the chief information security officer at global medical device outsourcing manufacturer Integer Holdings Corporation. Based in Plano, TX, Integer has annual revenue of just over $1 billion and employs about 7,500 globally. In his role, Balducci is responsible for the strategic leadership of the company’s information security pr...

CISO Conversation with BCU’s Stephenie Southard

Just ask Stephenie Southard — there are as many career paths within the information security field as there are information security professionals. Southard began her career as an EDI Coordinator, then an IT security analyst at the Indiana Department of Corrections, working as an Department Chair in the educational arena, and finally as a CISO. Her career in information sec...

False Sense of Security

We’ve hit an identity security inflection point over the last few months. This was largely brought about as more organizations paid closer attention to how they were connecting their workers to the systems and data needed do to their job – particularly after last years’ massive pivot to “working from anywhere”. It wasn’t just a keener eye on how efficiently workers were giv...

Don’t Let Sleeping Hackers Lie—Identity Security Is One Trick to Combat Cyber Threats

If anyone asks me about why I joined SailPoint almost a year ago, they’re going to get an earful about how all security starts with identity. I’ve seen it for years: a breach that never would have occurred if the identity was properly secured. An intrusion that never would have become a headline if the identity had not been massively over-privileged. We often think that br...

Another Leap for SailPoint with the Acquisition of ERP Maestro

SailPoint recently shared the exciting news of our acquisition of Intello. Today, I’m thrilled to share another step forward with the acquisition of ERP Maestro. From CISOs to identity and security practitioners alike, everyone I talk to knows this: there is no shortage of risk facing today’s cloud enterprise. And it is also a fact that many of these security issues stem f...

Why SailPoint? Maximus Explains

Meet SailPoint customer, Maximus. Maximus partners with state, federal and local governments to provide communities with critical health and human service programs. When Maximus conducted a general assessment of their environment, they discovered that they needed to build a formal identity program and reduce risk in highly privileged areas. Maximus already had a large IaaS...

Announcing SailPoint for Microsoft Teams: Adapting identity security to help your employees be more collaborative anywhere

Maintaining a feeling of teamwork and enabling productivity in almost any environment is more important than ever. Work from anywhere is now the new norm and collaboration solutions play an integral part in helping remote teams stay productive. At SailPoint, our focus is on finding innovative ways to help our customers simplify identity security. Our customers tell us they ...

The Missing Link: Combining Identity Security with Cloud Access Management

The adoption of Infrastructure as a Services (IaaS) is rapidly increasing, with more than 78% of organizations using at least 2 different cloud IaaS platforms. Many organizations have adopted stand-alone Cloud Access Management solutions to monitor their multi-cloud environments, but is that enough? While these solutions are good at providing visibility into cloud access, t...