“The stakes grow higher every day for security leaders and their teams, and this year’s CSO Awards honor the very best efforts to tackle challenges from an expanding threat landscape,” said Beth Kormanik, content director for the CSO Conference & Awards. “From devising new threat detection methods and cyber analytics to initiatives addressing AI threats, zero trust, and data protection, these projects are at the forefront of innovative security thinking and represent true business value for their organizations. We congratulate the winners and look forward to celebrating them at the CSO Conference & Awards this fall.”

Redefining cyber foundational excellence

In today’s digital age, four out of five data breaches can be traced back to digital identity. Despite this alarming statistic, 30% of organizations have still not started their identity security journeys. Many organizations grapple with a fragmented identity experience across their workforce. These companies often rely on manual and decentralized processes to manage access and governance to different user groups within their organization. AES, however, has pioneered an innovative approach to identity security. Its extensive program has shed light on how frequently cyber-attackers target companies, prompting the team to focus on foundational identity security as a key line of defense.

By centralizing its identity platform for access and identity controls across all users, AES leveraged SailPoint Identity Security Cloud (ISC) as a strategic catalyst for business transformation, innovation, and security resilience. AES provides its business partners with appropriate access to enabling technology and collaboration tools, while ensuring enterprise security controls are in place. AES’ ability to manage digital lifecycles end-to-end and integrate with enabling technologies underscores its maturity and excellence in identity security.

A unique and integrated approach

AES’ unique approach is rooted in its commitment to providing a holistic, standardized identity security solution that caters to all user types within its organization. By integrating ServiceNow and SailPoint, its team has streamlined provisioning and deprovisioning processes globally. This has improved the timeliness and efficiency of providing necessary access rights to all users, including employees, contingent workers, and contractors.

Before the automation of account creation and management, verifying and creating user accounts required manual approvals. This process was handled by Regional Digital Technical teams, each following regional methods for onboarding and offboarding users, which could take up to several days. With SailPoint, AES has reduced this total time to under 4 hours on average globally, accelerating the onboarding and management of resources efficiently and without manual intervention.

AES offers end-to-end digital lifecycle management for employees, contingent workers, and contractors. This facilitates a simplified, secure, and compliant Day 1 onboarding process, as well as automated provisioning and deprovisioning processes through seamless integration of ServiceNow and SailPoint.

Key features of AES’ integrated identity security solution

Simplified Onboarding: AES’ integrated solution automates the creation of user accounts, provisioning of resources, and assignment of permissions, facilitating a smooth and expedited onboarding process for all user categories. This not only accelerates time-to-productivity for employees but also expedites access for contingent workers and contractors to the tools and systems they need to contribute effectively. When a new employee, contingent worker, or service contractor joins the organization or requires access to specific resources, SailPoint provisioning workflows integrate with Workday and ServiceNow to grant the necessary access rights and permissions. Similarly, when a user leaves the organization or no longer requires access, SailPoint triggers deprovisioning workflows to revoke access and remove user accounts automatically.

Secure Access Management: Of course, security is paramount to AES’ strategy. Leveraging the combined capabilities of ServiceNow and SailPoint, AES enforces least privilege access principles and dynamically adjusts access rights based on changes in user roles or employment status.

Compliance and Audit Readiness: AES’ integrated solution enables comprehensive compliance and audit readiness by capturing detailed audit trails and reports of provisioning and deprovisioning events. This helps the organization’s identity security practices align with regulatory requirements and internal policies, providing support during audits and assessments.

Challenges and future directions AES recognizes that there are still challenges to overcome, including managing the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats, ensuring compliance with a growing body of regulations, and maintaining user satisfaction while enforcing strict security controls. Looking ahead, AES plans to further enhance their identity security strategy by incorporating advanced analytics for real-time threat detection, exploring the use of artificial intelligence for predictive threat modeling, and expanding its identity and access management framework to encompass emerging technologies and platforms. Through these efforts, AES aims to stay one step ahead of cyber threats and continue to safeguard its digital identities.

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That sounds great in theory, but onboarding applications in real life is mostly manual and takes a long time to accomplish. Imagine securing access to Microsoft Entra, SAP, or ServiceNow for hundreds of internal users and matching an identity’s access to a particular application. And to make it more challenging, most application owners understand the applications, but not how to govern access to them. All of this requires time and expertise, and that can stall an identity security program before it gets off the ground.

Introducing SailPoint® application onboarding
We want our customers to spend less time trying to discover and configure ungoverned applications and more time reaping the benefits of identity security. Enter SailPoint application onboarding – an AI-powered approach to help organizations efficiently manage the entire enterprise application lifecycle.

This new capability for SailPoint Identity Security Cloud is a direct response to customer requirements for the rapid extension of their identity security program to hundreds or thousands of applications, all powered by Identity Security Cloud.

SailPoint application onboarding leverages AI to accelerate and scale the process of onboarding customer applications, enabling customers to extend visibility and control over identity and access across their vast application landscape to easily discover and connect, configure, and manage access to any enterprise application.

Organizations can:

• Discover ungoverned applications using existing SSO systems like Okta, a configuration management database (CMDB) or similar system
• ​Leverage AI-driven recommendations to select and deploy the most effective connector or integration to fulfill access security needs for each application
• Get a guided and assisted application onboarding experience that uses AI-based recommendations​ to speed discovery, connect sources and suggest configuration options
• Solve the complex and time-consuming challenges of correlation mapping and configuration ​
• Confirm whether application accounts are manageable via AI recommendations and test and verify correlations before provisioning

The value of AI-powered application onboarding
The value these new capabilities bring to our customers is about quickly governing and securing access for every identity and across any IT environment with a unified identity security platform that helps meet compliance requirements, knock out zero trust goals, and quickly realize value.

SailPoint application onboarding delivers on this promise, helping our customers: 

• Reduce overall setup complexity for application connectivity​
• Lessen costly trial and error, particularly for the account correlation process
• Reduce onboarding time and labor, typically from weeks to hours and even days​
• Achieve better security outcomes via AI-driven recommendations​

SailPoint application onboarding is available now for Identity Security Cloud Business and Business Plus customers.

On the horizon: More efficient application onboarding in less time
We’re excited to introduce this new capability to our customers. But our commitment to helping enterprises experience further value and quickly apply identity security to the applications they use every day doesn’t stop there.

Identity security demands constant innovation to keep up with threats and meet customer expectations, and our multi-tenant SaaS platform helps us deliver quickly. As the SailPoint® application onboarding capability matures and adds new functionality, organizations will be able to:

• Discover ungoverned applications via privileged access management (PAM), cloud access security broker (CASB), SSO and other applications
• Delegate specialized onboarding decisions from administrators to application owners and subject matter experts, such as with complex enterprise SAP practices, for example
• Connect to applications that do not have an existing integration via readily available frameworks and sophisticated AI recommendations
• Take advantage of advanced AI functionality in other critical onboarding processes for even better efficiency and productivity—such as creating account policies—and continue to reduce the time it takes to apply identity security to applications
• Consult AI recommendations to understand which applications pose the most critical risk if not brought under governance, including risk ratings and AI-driven onboarding sequence recommendations

Learn more 
SailPoint application onboarding is part of SailPoint Connectivity— a key component of the SailPoint Atlas platform and the cornerstone of SailPoint’s extensibility strategy. Our comprehensive, actionable portfolio for any IT environment supports customer connectivity needs for more than 1,100 unique enterprise applications and more than 20,000 custom applications to deliver deep access governance in minutes for a clear view of access across the organization. 

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Government agencies, critical infrastructure, and government contractors seeking a SaaS-based identity security solution must choose a FedRAMP-authorized cloud service provider (CSP) they can trust to advance their identity security program. We sat down with Ryan Cooney, Manager of Federal Security Compliance, to get the basics. 

What is FedRAMP?  
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, known colloquially as FedRAMP, is a United States federal government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. FedRAMP empowers agencies to use modern cloud technologies, emphasizing the security and protection of federal information and helps accelerate the adoption of secure cloud solutions. FedRAMP Marketplace maintains vetted cloud service offerings authorized for use by the federal government.  

What does it mean that SailPoint is FedRAMP authorized? 
It means that SailPoint Identity Security Cloud has achieved ‘FedRAMP Moderate ATO’ and is approved for use by the United States government. SailPoint built our SaaS suite on AWS GovCloud and complied with all 325 security requirements defined in the FedRAMP Moderate controls baseline. FedRAMP sets a high standard for security and meeting those standards demonstrates SailPoint’s commitment to customer trust and success.  

What are the phases or steps to achieve a FedRAMP certification? An in-depth security assessment of the system was performed by an accredited third party to provide assurance of the FedRAMP platform security posture. SailPoint then underwent a comprehensive review and approval process with both its sponsor in the United States federal government and the FedRAMP Program Management Office.  

Why should current and potential customers care if a vendor is FedRAMP authorized? 
SailPoint has long been trusted to support the most sensitive federal agencies, critical infrastructure, defense industrial base, and top Fortune 500 companies. Now public sector customers or mission partners that handle federal data such as federal contractors and critical infrastructure can realize the benefits of using SailPoint’s FedRAMP SaaS solutions. 

What can I expect from SailPoint around its FedRAMP authorization in the coming weeks and months?  
Be on the lookout for SailPoint to release additional content regarding how our FedRAMP SaaS solutions can be used to meet your agency or federal contractor needs. 

In the meantime, learn the critical aspects of choosing the right provider for your identity security program on our website.  

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However, beyond the overall goal of securing access to applications and data, enterprises might have varied short-term and long-term priorities. For instance, one large retail organization might want to increase onboarding efficiency, while a fintech business might want to empower and protect remote work. Another healthcare company might be focused on both. And here at SailPoint, that can all be in a day’s work.

So, how does one solution, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, meet each organization’s unique needs at every step of their identity security journeys? Let’s take a look at a few examples.

1. Tailoring support to a huge consumer organization

Upgrading a business’s identity security is tough enough. But trying to do so without the support of tried and trusted experts can be a recipe for failure. That’s why at SailPoint we always provide tailored recommendations for an implementation partner who can support customers with their transitions. 

A world-leading consumer goods manufacturer asked SailPoint to help it become the most connected business of its type in the world. The customer’s short-term goal was to establish an identity program and begin automating lifecycle activities. It also wanted to roll out a common set of applications across all operating companies and streamline the broader application suite.

To advance delivery and implementation of a robust identity security program, SailPoint brought together a group of internal and external experts from product management, SaaS engineering, and services, alongside executive leadership to collaborate on delivery scope, timelines, and value. The SailPoint team guided the customer and its chosen implementation partner through technical delivery practices and the initial performance assessments and scalability of SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, along with providing last-minute advice and support.

The customer soon enjoyed a smooth deployment and realization of their mission: a successful cutover from their legacy tool to SailPoint Identity Security Cloud and end-to-end automation. It quickly processed 500+ joiners and initiated 250+ leavers through SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, now managing over 100,000 identities in total.

2. Improving control and centricity at a digital bank

Nordnet, a Scandinavian online bank, approached SailPoint to improve its usability, maintainability, scalability, and control of all access, as well as obtain “one source of truth” where all access can be viewed, managed, and secured in one place.

The bank went live with SailPoint Identity Security Cloud to specifically focus on Certifications and Access requests in their revamped Request Center. It resulted in a significantly quicker approval process, empowering the Nordnet team to easily manage, track, and review access for greater control. Mattias Karlsson, Process Owner of Access Management at Nordnet, said, “One of the focus areas was to improve usability and efficiency, which we have achieved, and gotten incredibly positive feedback from managers.”

Nordnet has achieved particularly remarkable improvements in its certification campaigns, trimming the completion time from 30 days to an impressive 18. The positive impact of these changes has reverberated throughout the organization. Marcus Montelius, System Manager at Nordnet, said, “We have had very positive feedback from our colleagues after our implementation of SailPoint Identity Security Cloud. The easy-to-use design for requests and certifications and the Slack integration have been very popular and much appreciated by our users.”

Montelius continued, “We have also improved drastically the implementation time of new integration with our internal application, compared to our previous system. This enables us to extend the delivery of applications and requestable accesses which results in less access management manual work around the company.”

3. Transforming Joiner, Mover, and Leaver processes for an investment business

A classic symptom across many enterprises today is the number of manual processes that they tend to persevere with. For a leading provider of end-to-end investment services, its Joiner, Mover, and Leaver (JML) processes required users to be manually onboarded and exited, while disjointed HR and core technology platforms were updated independently. These time-consuming manual tasks led to regular mistakes and delays, along with serious information security risks.

Fortunately, the business soon recognized that with SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, it could achieve greater control and process efficiencies over IT access management, particularly for JML. SailPoint now automates key actions within joiners, role changes, and user termination processes across their platforms and Active Directory. The company launched this across its two major domains and all user accounts are now managed through SailPoint Identity Security Cloud.

“Since the launch, we have been encouraged by the operational efficiency benefits that we are seeing as part of our staff Joiner, Mover, and Leaver processes,” said the company’s Head of IT Operations & Infrastructure. “We look forward to building upon this foundation over the coming year as we further embed SailPoint Identity Security Cloud into our individual applications’ access controls, enabling us to realize the full value of SailPoint Identity Security Cloud as a cornerstone of our identity security strategy.”

The power of a unified solution

The beauty of SailPoint Identity Security Cloud is that no matter the type of business or specific identity challenges faced, the solution is crafted to support customers today and throughout their journey, as identity needs and requirements grow in size, scale, and complexity. Four product modules provide customers with key capabilities and features to start their identity security journey: lifecycle management, compliance management, access modeling, and analytics. And with several add-ons designed to satisfy the most specific of identity security needs, SailPoint helps customers manage and secure every enterprise identity with greater ease while reducing overall risk.

Thousands of organizations worldwide use SailPoint Identity Security Cloud to manage and secure access to critical data and applications for every enterprise identity. So, wherever your enterprise is in its identity security journey, you can too. Learn more and start your journey today.

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This new capability within SailPoint Identity Security Cloud enables enhanced decision making by surfacing contextual information for users. Activity Insights provides not only data on who has access to what SaaS applications, it also serves up activity data and usage trends to show who is using applications. This information can help you make better, more informed access decisions. 

Activity Insights delivers activity-related data points across SailPoint Identity Security Cloud capabilities to achieve true least-privileged access.  When certifying and reviewing access, application owners can see how often a user has logged into a resource in the last 90 days and compare it to their peers. If the data indicates inactivity, the reviewer can investigate trends, compare usage to peers, or terminate access, eliminating risk and potentially saving license costs.

SailPoint Identity Security Cloud incorporates Activity Insights into several capabilities, including Access Certifications. You now can view activity data points and usage information at the source level, within the access certifications screen, so you can make informed decisions to revoke or continue an identity’s access.

Previously, Access Modeling provided suggestions for which entitlements should be associated with roles, based solely on entitlement data and how often a group of identities has the entitlement. With Activity Insights, customers can see how often an entitlement is used and view activity data points at the source level. Administrators can use that data to improve the access model and decision making around optimal role building and maintenance.

Additionally, Activity Insights are integrated into Access History. Access History is a data intelligence tool for identity access managers and individuals with direct reports to gain visibility into historical information on identity-specific entitlements, roles, and other identity governance-related items. This helps you understand how an entitlement, or its related application, was utilized. The tool addresses basic questions such as how has this entitlement/application been used since a user gained access, has an individual’s activity decreased over time? Has it increased? Has their activity followed a cyclical pattern? Have they failed to use it when they should have? All this activity data will now be available to help make informed decisions and deliver forensic utilization information.

Having more information, in this case, activity data and usage context, is always a good thing when making decisions. After all, experts say we make 35,000 conscious decisions a day. Now with SailPoint’s Activity Insights, you can be confident you’re making the right ones! Tune in to this on-demand webinar for a deeper dive.

Authored by Jerry Aubel, Sr. Product Marketing Manager

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For US-based public companies, recent SEC regulations around how quickly companies must now disclose a breach complicates things further. According to the regulations, companies must disclose a security breach within a matter of days of the event. Anyone who has faced a breach of any kind knows that having all the information regarding a breach in a matter of days is hugely challenging, in addition, it may complicate the situation of having to disclose as the breach is still being remedied. With these new regulations, what will prove important is not just sharing information early but updating often, particularly as more information comes to light, which is likely to happen outside of the initial disclosure period. I cannot overstate it — the ramifications around transparency, clarity and timeliness are extremely apparent here.  

Last but certainly not least, is the complexity of the digital landscape. Understanding the “who” in “who has access” and the “what” (technologies, data and resources) they have access to has evolved tremendously. Without clarity on both areas AND a very focused, integrated, unified approach to managing all of that at the scale that today’s enterprise demands, it becomes very difficult for companies to be able to address the transparency, clarity and timeliness that the regulatory environment alone now demands.  

So where does that leave today’s enterprise CISOs? Well, with the wrong cyber security strategy, that would leave them exposed! CISOs and CIOs, more than ever before, must be able to defend their cyber strategy, ensure they have the right approach, right execution, and a fortified enterprise that can withstand the never-ending cyber threats. They have to be prepared and equipped to disclose everything necessary in the event of a security incident. The reality is, that they simply cannot afford to make a careless mistake, the stakes are too high! One wrong (or delayed) decision is all it takes. It could mean a company lawsuit, a failure to meet regulatory requirements, and, of course, it could also put their job—and their reputation—in jeopardy.  

The enterprise security tipping point 
We’re faced with a real tipping point in enterprise security—organizations need a better way to see everything happening across their business so that they can manage it all, secure it all, and, importantly, react to it all—without pause, without delay. It is crucial to get this right. This is where we continue to see the relevance and business essentialism of unified identity security across enterprise security programs worldwide.  

Unified identity security is about the right security policies that bring the clarity and control needed to safeguard the business. That means a holistic view into every identity type, every access type and every type of application and the sensitive data within. It’s not just that holistic view that puts the power back in the hands of the CISO, it’s also the element of AI that drives autonomous decisions based on a unified set of policies, thus freeing up security teams to focus on the bigger picture.   

This is not the time to save a few bucks, nor is it a time to look for the seemingly easy way out with a converged approach to managing identities, which will almost always end up costing more in the long run. Given the layered dynamics—regulatory, reputational and landscape—that impact every enterprise worldwide, companies must look at securing their business through the right lens. With identities being the central thread that weaves the enterprise together today, the only way to truly secure it all is by taking a unified approach, backed by policy and underpinned by a unified data model. Simply put, enterprise security has to start and end with identities. This is no longer a niche or a nice-to-have buy for CIOs and CISOs, identity security is a strategic investment that will drive risk reduction and business resiliency. And ultimately, forms the foundation of enterprise security today.  

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We are thrilled to announce the initial launch of SailPoint’s Customer Success Center (CSC), marking a new chapter in our commitment to enhancing the digital customer experience. This launch represents the first phase of an ongoing journey to develop a comprehensive customer experience platform that adapts and grows based on customer feedback and the changing needs of the market. 

Vision and purpose of the customer success center 
With the Customer Success Center’s launch, SailPoint continues to ensure that every customer success interaction is streamlined, every resource is impactful, and every customer is empowered to achieve their strategic objectives with unparalleled support and expertise. 

Positioned within our Compass Community, the Customer Success Center is tailored to equip both new and existing customers with strategic resources that streamline their experiences and enhance their operational effectiveness. 

Our goal is to empower customers with innovative, self-service tools and comprehensive strategic guidance. The resources available at launch are just the starting point. As we gather feedback and learn from customers’ experiences, these tools will be refined to more effectively support our customers’ journeys in identity security. We are committed to using this launch as a learning phase, where every interaction will help to shape its future. 

Initial features and tools 
To begin, we have introduced several key features, such as the Customer Success Onboarding Guide and Success Planning Guide. These guides are designed to provide immediate support and guidance for all customers throughout their journey with SailPoint. 

Our onboarding guide includes interactive tours of our digital communities, strategic resources designed to help customers craft their identity security program strategy, and the ability to engage our Customer Success team for personalized onboarding sessions. By facilitating smoother onboarding and continuous learning, the Customer Success Center enables customers to quickly adapt and excel in their identity security initiatives. 

The Success Planning Guide invites customers to collaborate with our Customer Success team to create tailored, actionable success plans focused on achieving their strategic goals and program milestones. 

Join us on this journey 
As we look to the future, our commitment to digital customer success remains unwavering. We plan to continuously enhance the Customer Success Center with even more advanced tools and resources, ensuring it evolves to meet the changing needs of our customers and the dynamics of the market. 

The Customer Success Center is more than just a resource; it is a partnership. We encourage you to engage with the Center, explore its initial offerings, and actively contribute to its growth. Your feedback will be instrumental in shaping a center that truly supports your needs and enhances your experience with SailPoint. 

Together, let’s redefine what customer success looks like in the digital landscape. 

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When and where is the event?
May 6-9 at Moscone Center, San Francisco

Where can I find the SailPoint crew?
Booth #N4434 (pro-tip RSA newcomers: the letter in front of the number indicates the hall of Moscone, i.e., “North”).

Stop by our booth (#N4344) where our team of experts will be available to showcase a variety of interactive demos, introduce the latest version of our Horizons of Identity Security Maturity Assessment, and offer some fantastic SailPoint swag. Don’t miss the opportunity to discover how we’re assisting customers worldwide, across various industries, in safeguarding the core of their enterprises.

Does SailPoint have a speaking session?
Yes! On Tuesday, May 7 at 12:30pm PST SailPoint will be on stage in the Expo Theatre in the South Hall for SailPoint’s session, “Avoid security silos with a unified approach to mitigating risk.” Our very own Rick Wagoner, Sr. Director of Product Management, will share the importance of having the right solution to monitor users and the right solution to secure their access to data and applications that operate separately and open up security gaps. He will take you on the journey of how SailPoint is helping organizations identify and take action on the risks that require immediate attention.

Where can I continue the conversation with SailPoint at RSA?
We have a variety of SailPoint-hosted events for you to join at this year’s event. Take a look at the events for the one that suits you, register, and we’ll confirm your spot!

Tuesday, May 7: LATAM Customer Lunch, sponsored by SailPoint | 12:00 – 2:00 pm | Fang | Register

Wednesday, May 8: Women in Identity Breakfast by SailPoint | 7:30 – 9:30 am | The Westin St. Francis | Register

Wednesday, May 8: SailPoint Horizon’s of Identity lunch featuring Accenture, sponsored by SailPoint | 12:00 – 2:00 pm | Fang | Register

Interested in a 1:1 meeting? There’s still time to request one.

Does SailPoint have a discount code for a pass?
We have a variety of passcodes available for you to use. Use code “54SSAILPNTXP” for a free expo pass and use code “52FCDSAILPNT” for $150 off the full-price ticket. There’s still time to register for either.

How did last year’s event go for SailPoint?
Check out our key takeaways from 2023 in our takeaway blog post.

We look forward to seeing you at the event!

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As your identity security program evolves, it’s essential to gain greater context on critical content to help lock down sensitive information as a foundational piece of your security program. At the end of the day, data is ultimately what you are trying to govern and protect.

With the proliferation of sensitive enterprise data and new data regulations, lack of context about sensitive data increases the risk of rubber stamping and unintended overprovisioning – amplifying the potential for unwarranted data exposure and data theft. With limited visibility into where sensitive data is and who has access to it, the task of satisfying strict regulatory requirements grows more complex.

So, where do you start – and how can you leverage the benefits of integrated data access governance as a core aspect of a comprehensive identity security program?

Below are our top recommendations to get started.

1.    Extend identity security best practices to sensitive data

To optimize your access governance decisions and strengthen security controls, it is important to understand where sensitive data is, who has access to it, and how it is being used across your organization. With broader context and intelligence on your most critical data, your organization can holistically manage data access throughout an identity’s lifecycle, minimize overprovisioning, and improve security posture.

Leveraging identity security best practices built into SailPoint’s Atlas Platform, Data Access Security extends your governance processes to your most critical data assets. With automated data discovery and classification, you can now find and catalog sensitive content and holistically govern access through a unified platform.

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First, find out where your sensitive data is and catalog it appropriately. Using Data Access Security’s data discovery and classification functionality, you can set up customized data classification policies and easily discover sensitive information across file and data storage locations.

For example, you can leverage Data Access Security’s out-of-the-box data classification policies within your environment to automatically classify and catalog regulated sensitive data, including sensitive personally identifiable information (PII), payment card information (PCI), medical records regulated under HIPAA, and data protection laws like GDPR and CCPA. You can also catalog content based on internal identifiers and dynamic policies to secure intellectual property, parented information, and classified restricted content.  

2.    Understand the data access landscape

Once you have mapped out where critical data resides, you can leverage Data Access Security’s access analytics to gain better visibility into how identities gain access to data assets across your organization.

Whether it is direct access granted to an individual or implicit access inherited through an array of entitlements, groups, and access paths, Data Access Security identifies exactly who has access and how they gained that access.

Holistically analyzing the data access landscape enables your organization to highlight when security best practices are being violated, where access is misaligned (exposing sensitive data to large audiences), or if data is being shared outside the organization.

Understanding these anomalies is critical, especially in this early stage, as it provides the opportunity to correct violations and align entitlements and access paths – the core building blocks of your access model.

3.    Surface data insights at key decision points

After classifying sensitive data and analyzing access, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud leverages these insights to provide enhanced information about entitlements that contain access to sensitive information or grant broad unrestricted access. These insights are critical when approving or rejecting access, or in building roles to automate provisioning access.

For example, access reviewers certifying identities can see what sensitive data is provided for a specific entitlement and view the specific data classification categories in context with each entitlement. 

With better context on the data being governed, you can optimize governance decisions, proactively uncover implicit access to critical data, and lock down sensitive content as an integral part of your identity security program.

4.    Integrate data context across the organization

Entitlement Enrichment 

With entitlement enrichment, Data Access Security provides better visibility into data exposure and helps identify entitlements that provide access to business-critical and sensitive regulated data that need to be tightly governed and more frequently reviewed.

For example, admins can easily identify entitlements that grant access to internally classified information, create policies to prevent that access from contractors, third parties and non-employees, and ensure no sensitive access is granted too broadly through organization-wide roles.

Certification Enrichment 

Data Access Security also enables compliance practitioners to easily identify entitlements that grant access to sensitive regulated data, such as personally identifiable information (PII). This allows such access to be reviewed and certified in the appropriate cadence, certification efforts to encompass the correct information, and audits to be passed with ease.

Certification enrichment gives teams the power to certify identities with access to regulated and sensitive information and data locations. Teams can now get additional context, sensitivity labels, and impact scores according to their access to unstructured data, helping to keep data safe and secure.

For example, a manager might be alerted to the need for a deeper review before approving the access of an employee from the Tokyo office after learning that access grants them visibility into critical information about U.S. accounts.

5.    Minimize information silos with shared dashboards

Access decisions can no longer be made in a vacuum, as the need for contextual awareness of critical data assets and risk insights are an integral part of every decision an organization makes. Recognizing these needs, Data Access Security brings greater sensitive data visibility to shared dashboards in MySailPoint by surfacing critical data insights for admins and security teams.  

Ensure key decision-makers are informed with actionable insights and up-to-date reporting to understand risks and prioritize security initiatives. With a single glance, admins can assess the progress towards their governance goals, get real-time status on active certification campaigns, identify critical data assets without assigned data owners, and see which areas require increased monitoring.

How SailPoint can help

By leveraging the power of Data Access Security, your security team can now unify access policies and controls across applications and data. To learn more about Data Access Security and how to add insights on sensitive data to your identity security program, contact our team to request a live demo or take a self-guided product tour today.

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Usain Bolt…

Flo-Jo…

Michael Phelps…

SailPoint’s Non-Employee Risk Management…

All four are synonymous with speed. We’re excited to announce a game-changing enhancement to our Non-Employee Risk Management solution: QuickStart Templates.

QuickStart Templates provide pre-configured setups tailored to common non-employee use cases, enabling new customers to expedite their setup process so they can immediately focus on managing non-employees effectively. QuickStart Templates include onboarding a new non-employee, modifying a non-employee’s identity details, termination, rehire, and end date management. Non-Employee Risk Management users can easily adapt the solution to their specific needs without the hassle of manual configuration.

Bolt’s ability to cover 100 meters in mere seconds is awe-inspiring, just as Non-Employee Risk Management’s QuickStart Templates allows organizations to onboard non-employees in record time.

But it’s not just about speed—it’s about success. Bolt’s illustrious career is marked by numerous gold medals and world records, showcasing his unparalleled dominance on the track. Similarly, Non-Employee Risk Management enables organizations to make smarter access decisions about non-employees, increase team productivity, demonstrate compliance with ease, and expand a strong security posture to your extended enterprise.   

And it’s no wonder that so many organizations are signing on to use SailPoint’s Non-Employee Risk Management to help them race towards non-employee identity security. According to a recent report, 64% of organizations state third-party risk management is viewed as a strategic imperative by their board of directors and executive teams. Leadership understands how vital it is for their organizations to secure their third-party relationships!    

Companies embracing Non-Employee Risk Management are propelling themselves onto the express lane of third-party security. Take Absa Bank, for instance, which revolutionized its non-employee identity management program. By empowering 12,000 non-employees with secure identities, Absa slashed a staggering 15 days off their onboarding process, ensuring quicker third-party access. This streamlined approach not only enhances security but also translates to significant cost savings, amounting to approximately $300 per identity onboarded. With such transformative results, Absa demonstrates the power of Non-Employee Risk Management in turbocharging efficiency, security, and bottom-line savings.

With streamlined processes and enhanced interoperability, Non-Employee Risk Management empowers organizations to achieve their risk management objectives more effectively while reducing operational overhead and ensuring compliance. Now with QuickStart Templates and the seamless integration with SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, new customers will stay ahead of the curve in managing non-employee risks.

Ready to experience the benefits of accelerated non-employee risk management? Schedule a demo today or take a self-guided interactive product tour to explore how Non-Employee Risk Management can handle your specific non-employee use cases and demonstrate how the solution can help you achieve your risk management objectives more efficiently and effectively.

Don’t let manual configuration slow you down—embrace QuickStart Templates and unlock the full potential of Non-Employee Risk Management with SailPoint. Channel your inner Bolt and sprint towards success with Non-Employee Risk Management. With QuickStart Templates at the ready, you’ll be able to leave inefficient, risky processes in the dust and race toward a brighter, more secure future.

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