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 have [...]
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Posted on February 2nd, 2010 by Jackie Gilbert
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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Posted on December 28th, 2009 by Kevin Cunningham
Despite the economic challenges, this has been a record year for SailPoint as we’ve doubled our customer base and expanded into Europe and APAC. As we look forward to 2010, we have been reflecting upon the recession and how it will impact next year – particularly in regard to how companies consume, purchase and view [...]
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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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Posted on November 18th, 2009 by Jackie Gilbert
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, two SailPoint customers presented case studies last Wednesday at the Gartner IAM Summit. Bravely taking on the 8 a.m. time slot (which was well attended for the early hour) was Andy Weeks, Risk and Compliance Manager for Humana. Andy gave a very compelling overview of Humana’s IAM journey over [...]
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Posted on November 4th, 2009 by Kevin Cunningham
Next week, I’ll be attending the Gartner IAM Summit in San Diego. It’s safe to assume that the state of the IAM/IdM market will be top of mind at the conference, so I thought I’d share my observations:
Despite tightened budgets during 2009, we are seeing strong demand for identity governance. Companies continue to invest in [...]
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Posted on October 12th, 2009 by Jackie Gilbert
In less than three months, the new Model Audit Rule (MAR) will go into effect. Beginning January 1st, many non-public insurers will for the first time be required to comply with more stringent regulatory provisions, and public insurers that are already subject to SOX will be subject to additional reporting requirements. One key aspect of [...]
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Posted on October 1st, 2009 by SailPoint
In SailPoint’s recent issue of NAVIGATE, Kevin shares identity governance best practices based on his discussions with SailPoint customers:
It’s important to take a step back from your identity governance initiatives to make sure you’re addressing security and compliance challenges in tandem. It not only makes your approach more efficient, which is critical for teams with [...]
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Posted on July 7th, 2009 by Darran Rolls
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 [...]
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Posted on July 1st, 2009 by Jackie Gilbert
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 [...]
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