Posted on September 16th, 2009 by SailPoint
While identity governance is beginning to get more mainstream attention, companies are still struggling to understand what features and functionality fall under the identity governance umbrella. In last week’s Computer Technology Review, Jackie contributed an article, “Gaining Visibility and Control with Identity Governance: A Guide to Getting Started,” in an effort to help companies better [...]
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Posted on August 11th, 2009 by Jackie Gilbert
One of the things I enjoy most about Burton Catalyst is the chance to hear first-hand from client organizations about their identity management deployments. For the most part, these sessions deal honestly with issues and challenges, are relatively hype-free, and focus on the pragmatic vs. the visionary. This year’s Catalyst featured an interesting set of [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2009 by Mark McClain
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted on June 23rd, 2009 by SailPoint
The security risk posed by insiders is growing in magnitude. What’s at stake? Brand reputation, customer and shareholder confidence, even market capitalization. Companies can address many aspects of this business risk through proactive monitoring and controls, but addressing the risk of privileged “super” users and privileged accounts has remained a uniquely challenging issue. While privileged [...]
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Posted on May 15th, 2009 by Darran Rolls
In his recent Network World column, “The Regional, Cultural and National Differences of Identity Management,” Dave Kearns discussed a panel he moderated at last week’s European Identity Conference: On a panel called “Is there a difference between the European way of doing IAM/GRC and the rest of the world?” I was quickly informed that, in [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2009 by Jackie Gilbert
In SailPoint’s second Market Pulse Survey (announced yesterday), we asked Global 2000 companies about how they are managing IT risk given the economic downturn and resulting corporate churn. Not surprisingly, given the recessionary budgets and resource allocations these companies are facing, the survey showed that companies remain very exposed to the risks of insider threats [...]
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Posted on April 21st, 2009 by Kevin Cunningham
Most of us were surprised yesterday to hear Oracle’s intentions to acquire Sun. What does this announcement mean for the IdM space? While Oracle has taken out one of its chief competitors in the IdM suite business as a by-product of the acquisition, it has done so at the cost of great confusion to both [...]
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Posted on April 20th, 2009 by Darran Rolls
These days I spend a lot of time on the road talking to customers, prospects, and business partners. I’m fortunate to spend time with some of the smartest people in the industry and hear about the kinds of projects that are still being funded in troubled times. Of all of things I hear, one theme [...]
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Posted on April 2nd, 2009 by Kevin Cunningham
The identity management space is once again in a stage of rapid evolution and the hottest topic these days is identity governance and compliance. Companies have the opportunity to choose from a broad range of old and new technologies to solve their problems, and now, more than ever before, are striving to do more with [...]
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