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Security Q&A on Zero Trust with Mark Morrison, CSO at Options Clearing Corporation: Part 2

In our first segment with Mark Morrison, Chief Security Officer for The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), we discussed his beginnings in cybersecurity and what has changed over the years. In this Q&A, we continued from where we left off with identity management and take a deep dive into his thoughts on cyber resilience and zero trust. As a reminder, before joining OCC, M...

Country Financial Re imagines Identity with Automation

Meet SailPoint customer, Country Financial. Country Financial is a U.S. insurance and financial services company. They set out on their identity journey looking for a solution that would replace their cumbersome manual processes. They needed an identity platform that would help them reach their automation goals and scale with their growing business. With SailPoint, Country...

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Streaming giant Netflix started in 1997 to humble beginnings. First, the company offered DVD rentals you could get by mail. Always the innovators, and realizing that snail mail wasn’t it, Netflix dropped this practice and started focusing their attention on creating their owned content available by streaming. While this was a great move for Netflix, all this content was too...

Philips Leverages Identity to Improve Security Posture

Meet SailPoint customer, Philips. Philips is a leading health technology company focused on improving peoples lives and enabling better outcomes across the health continuum. Identity and security are top of mind for Philips as they make the transformation to becoming a digital company. They needed an identity solution that would not only improve their security posture and r...

Security Q&A: Mark Morrison, CSO at Options Clearing Corporation

Mark Morrison is the Chief Security Officer for The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), the largest equity derivatives clearing organization globally. In this Q&A, we discuss his career journey and many of the challenges he sees within cybersecurity today. Before joining OCC, Mark served as SVP and Chief Information Security Officer at State Street Corporation. There he pr...

Empowering Students With The Power of Identity

Founded in 1819, Norwich University was the first private military college in the United States and the birthplace of Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC). The university has over 5,000 students in their undergraduate and graduate programs, which consists of 60% ROTC students and 40% civilian students. The graduate program’s growth has been phenomenal over the past 10 year...

Capital Group: Investing in Identity Governance

Meet SailPoint customer, Capital Group. The Capital Group is one of the largest investment firms in the world and is home to the American Funds family of funds. Their technology stack which included a mix of legacy products and homegrown solutions needed a major refresh. The IAM team was bogged down by manual processes and growing security demands. They needed an identity p...

The Identity Management Pendulum: Identity Security Mitigates Access Management Risk

It wasn’t so long ago when it was common to think of identity management as a compliance and enablement tool for large enterprises. The market was borne from a compliance standpoint. Since then, SailPoint has led the evolution of identity into what it is today: foundational to securing and enabling today’s digital cloud enterprise. Today, a large part of the world of identi...

T-Mobile: From Legacy to the Cloud

Meet SailPoint customer, T-Mobile. The well-known global wireless telecommunications service provider was looking to migrate from their legacy identity system while in the middle of a merger and acquisition – a sizable task. To accomplish this, they needed an identity solution that would allow them to execute a seamless migration with minimal disruptions to the business. W...

Millicom: What if Identity Didn’t Exist?

We rely on identity for almost everything, which became even more apparent when organizations had to make the quick shift to a remote workforce. Identity stands at the very core of IT operations and allows organizations to manage security and compliance risks. Now imagine if identity didn’t exist… Long time industry veteran and SailPoint customer, John Masserini, Chief Inf...