Posted on September 20th, 2011 by Jackie Gilbert
Here’s some news that will surprise no one, but at the same time deserves some serious thought. Recently, SailPoint commissioned our 2011 Market Pulse Survey to help us gauge the impact that all-too-frequent data breaches have on consumer loyalty to banks, credit card companies and retailers. Not surprisingly, the survey confirmed that consumers are clearly [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2011 by Jackie Gilbert
Just in time for Catalyst, we announced our latest Market Pulse Survey, which focused on employee compliance with corporate policies around proprietary data. Our intent was to identify insider behaviors or attitudes that place enterprises at risk. And while I was expecting the survey to reinforce the need for identity governance, I was more than [...]
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Posted on May 10th, 2011 by Jackie Gilbert
Last week, the FTC announced that both Ceridian Corporation and Lookout Services, Inc. have agreed to settlements related to security breaches that occurred in 2009. In Ceridian’s case, the breach exposed the Social Security numbers and direct deposit information of roughly 28,000 individuals; the Lookout breach exposed the Social Security numbers of approximately 37,000 consumers. [...]
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Posted on January 7th, 2011 by Jackie Gilbert
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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Posted on August 25th, 2010 by Jackie Gilbert
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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Posted on June 15th, 2010 by Jackie Gilbert
A few weeks ago, I was out on the West Coast talking to companies about privileged user management and identity governance with our technology partner, Cyber-Ark. This is an area of real concern for lots of organizations – and rightfully so. During our meetings, we exchanged real-world “horror stories” about insider fraud and sabotage. One [...]
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Posted on May 5th, 2010 by Mark McClain
Last week’s oil spill has me thinking about how – and when – government regulation is the ideal path to mandate corporate governance. Specifically in the IdM space, I’ve watched government regulations evolve to address transparency, privacy and consumer data protection. As I look back at what’s happened, it’s apparent that most of these data [...]
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Posted on March 4th, 2010 by Jackie Gilbert
This week, several members of the SailPoint team made the annual trek to the industry’s biggest security event, the RSA Conference. As always, the conference was a high-paced mix of conference sessions, technology debates, and meetings with customers and partners. I’m always interested in what themes get the most play at RSA. This year, I’d [...]
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Posted on January 21st, 2010 by SailPoint
We recently conducted our third Market Pulse Survey, which focused on the key drivers of access certifications and how organizations ensure their access privileges align with business policy. According to the 150 respondents, including many readers of this blog, there is clear evidence business users involved in these processes don’t fully understand what they are [...]
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Posted on December 7th, 2009 by Jackie Gilbert
A recent Forbes feature, “The Year of the Mega Breach,” caught my attention last week. It includes a slideshow of 2009′s largest security breaches, and concludes that this year alone, more personal information was exposed through data breaches than ever before. The article appeared amid news about a T-Mobile data breach, and Health Net and [...]
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