The Yin and Yang of Governance for XACML I chuckled when I read Ian Glazer’s blog post, “A Chronic Identity Pain.” Ian referred to himself as “an old provisioning guy” – being a few years his senior, it made me think, “Does that make me an old-old provisioning guy?” Having said that, I do consider [...]
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An article by Mathew Schwartz of InformationWeek, “Hackers, Insiders Behind Most Identity Theft,” caught my attention this week – not because it highlights a new risk for organizations, but because it illustrates the old adage, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” The article recaps a study by the Identity Theft Resource [...]
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The SailPoint team just returned from the 2010 Gartner IAM Summit in San Diego. It’s always a great show because of the focus on IdM and the organizations that attend the show. This year, attendance was up and there were lots of networking opportunities to exchange ideas on this rapidly changing market. I got the [...]
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Several members of the SailPoint team traveled up to Chicago last week for one of our regional SailPoint Users Group meetings. The meeting was very well attended by SailPoint customers across mid-western states, with a few customers joining us from as far away as North Carolina and Georgia. These events bring together users spanning diverse [...]
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If you can believe it, I’m already fielding questions about my prediction for 2011. As customers start planning for next year, they want to know where to focus and what to look for. I know the IdM industry has long-talked about the holy grail of bridging IT and business (or “marrying IT and business” or [...]
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SailPoint recently announced the results of our 2010 Market Pulse Survey focused on employees’ attitudes toward company data. We got some pretty startling results from the more than 1,500 workers polled in the U.S. and Great Britain: Half of the respondents said they would take company data with them when leaving a job. A full [...]
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Last week, the SailPoint team attended the Burton Gartner Catalyst show in San Diego. The event was very well attended, and it presented a great opportunity to hear from the analysts and connect with our customers and prospects in between sessions and during our Mad Hatter’s identiTEA Party hospitality suite. On day one, keynote speaker [...]
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A little more than a year ago, the industry was surprised to hear that Oracle planned to acquire Sun Microsystems. Immediately, Sun customers began to wonder about the future of their existing IdM investments. It took another several months for the acquisition to be finalized, and then even more before Oracle began to roll out [...]
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This morning, we announced a next generation provisioning product that builds on the governance framework provided by our core product, IdentityIQ. The announcement is a culmination of almost two years’ work internally at SailPoint, and we believe it represents an evolutionary shift in the provisioning market that will benefit any company that is struggling to [...]
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Beginning in 2010, energy producers and distributors face a looming challenge – to become “auditably compliant” with the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards by the July 1, 2010 deadline. Developed by NERC, an independent, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to ensure the reliability of the bulk power system in North America, and given the force [...]
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