Posted on May 21st, 2013 by Kevin Cunningham
Does addressing risk-based security decisions for your organization mean that you are also compliant in the eyes of the auditors? This is a general question Ericka Chickowski addresses in her recent article for Dark Reading – “Mapping Compliance Proof To Risk-Based Controls.” It is a compelling article that addresses a debate our industry has faced [...]
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Posted on May 1st, 2013 by Kevin Cunningham
Earlier this month, the SailPoint crew had the pleasure of spending quality time with more than 200 customers and partners from around the globe – with several traveling from as far away as Australia, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia and South Africa – at our inaugural customer conference, Navigate ’13. See highlights from the show: Navigate [...]
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Posted on April 24th, 2013 by David Strom
If your hospital emergency room is in beautiful downtown Burbank, California, chances are you are going to have some pretty well-known people walk in from the various movie and TV studios that populate the town. And, if you are the System Director of Enterprise Security for the company that owns that hospital, you have a [...]
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Posted on April 10th, 2013 by David Strom
All of us deal with risk every day, we just don’t necessarily quantify it or categorize it in making our decisions. Do we jaywalk the red light on the corner, because there isn’t any oncoming traffic? Do we forgo coffee because we are running late for work? Do we not tell one of our coworkers [...]
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Posted on April 4th, 2013 by David Strom
I got to see the AccessIQ single sign-on (SSO) product this week at SailPoint’s Navigate conference. When I did my review for Network World last fall, it wasn’t available yet. Too bad, because it would have scored highly given the criteria that I used for the review. The notion of SSO is a good one: [...]
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Posted on April 3rd, 2013 by David Strom
As readers of this blog well know, selling IAM solutions internally is not always a slam-dunk, and with six-plus figure price tags, these sales take time to win both upper management and then users in the trenches. Part of the trick is being able to sell up and down concurrently, by crafting your message carefully [...]
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Posted on April 3rd, 2013 by David Strom
Earl Perkins, the Gartner IAM analyst, spoke today at SailPoint’s Navigate conference about the future of the technology. He covered how businesses are evolving to take the best advantage of managing their identity collections. One item was his opinion on how some IAM projects fail because “IT tries to find a group to stick an [...]
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Posted on April 3rd, 2013 by David Strom
At the Navigate opening session today, SailPoint CEO Mark McClain spoke to how to future proof your IAM. He mentioned several tenets that the company keeps in mind while rolling out new products and Web services. First, it has to have a user interface that is consumer-grade dirt simple with friendly UIs and nothing to [...]
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Posted on April 1st, 2013 by Jackie Gilbert
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to speak with dozens of current and prospective customers at a series of CISO breakfast meetings in the U.S. and at the recent Gartner IAM Summit in London. What struck me about those conversations is that while many were interested in discussing new challenges arising from cloud, mobility, [...]
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Posted on February 13th, 2013 by Jackie Gilbert
Check out any set of predictions about the IT industry in 2013, and chances are, you’ll find yourself reading that adoption of cloud and mobile computing is big – and getting bigger. SailPoint wanted to better understand how these new paradigms are impacting the risk posture of enterprises so we focused our most recent Market [...]
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