A Technical View of BPM & Identity Governance

Building on Mark’s post from earlier this week, I want to add that I think the industry needs to get out of the mindset of thinking of “the business of identity” as an IT tools problem. For sure, provisioning has the potential to provide a consistent transactional “bus” for the identity change activity. But today’s [...]

Business Process Management: A Key Element of Identity Governance

Last week, I was very pleased to see Burton Group publish a report entitled “Access and Identity Governance: Leading to Transparency and Visibility?” The report, authored by Gerry Gebel, describes how an access and identity governance layer has emerged to address enterprise needs for greater transparency, visibility and business controls. The report is notable in [...]

Goldman Sachs Tries to Catch a Thief

I came to work this morning to read a Bloomberg article, “Goldman May Lose Millions From Ex-Worker’s Code Theft,” about a recent data breach. The details are still coming in, but allegedly a former computer programmer from Goldman Sachs, Sergey Aleynikov, downloaded and stole a copy of proprietary trading software. To me, this is an [...]

Feet on the Street: Day 2 of Security Summit Focuses on Customer Successes

Today during the Gartner Information Security Summit, SailPoint participated in a very interesting program put together by Gartner called the CISO Boardroom – an invitation-only forum designed to help CISOs and CSOs explore key IT security issues and strategies with their peers.
We participated in a round table discussion where a vice president of enterprise security [...]