What Is At The Core Of Identity Security Today?

Today’s modern enterprises face change on multiple fronts: Anywhere operations. Multi-cloud environments. Digital transformation. IoT devices. Democratization of IT. The list goes on. And yet again, cyber risk looks like it will continue to be one of the biggest challenges facing enterprises in 2022. Although I feel like I’ve been saying this for 20 years, the frequency, volume and sophistication of cyberattacks and cyber threats are increasing…but now you can add the patchwork of privacy and data governance regulations emerging around the world, which further complicates enterprise data protection. These new working dynamics have the power to elevate businesses, but they also have potential to accelerate a problem: how do organizations both enable and secure their workforce? All it takes is one breach to cause major problems—and all it takes for a breach is one unsecured identity. In fact, according to a recent Identity Defined Security Alliance (IDSA) report, 95% of surveyed enterprises have experienced identity-related breaches.

Enterprise security starts and ends with identities, yet the ability to manage and secure identities in the modern environment is complex and has moved well beyond human capacity. Many organizations are trying to secure their identities using older means like spreadsheets or solutions developed in-house with outdated technology that is under-scaled and not architected to meet the needs of today’s modern enterprise. A peripheral, one-size-fits-all security product won’t cut it. Enterprises need a solution that goes to the core of identity security.

At the core of identity security is our SailPoint Identity Platform, built with artificial intelligence and machine learning. A foundation that protects your organization against cyberthreats by streamlining and automating the control of managing and securing identities in a modern enterprise. Our platform focuses on delivering timely, optimal access for all your identities, ensuring that access is automatically adjusted as their role changes or if they leave the organization. And, it integrates with existing systems and workflows, providing a complete, singular view and control into all identities and their access rights across the entire organization.

Trends Impacting Today’s Modern Enterprise

Market dynamics in the last 18 months have accelerated a series of trends that have changed almost every aspect of today’s modern enterprise—and I see it reflected every time I talk with a customer. If the pandemic taught us anything it is that enterprises must ensure businesses continuity during periods of rapid change to succeed. And, at SailPoint, we take our customers’ success very seriously. We have been revisiting and innovating our approach to identity security to ensure we are anticipating emerging challenges our customers will face in the coming years.

With more identities than ever, a lack of visibility is a growing pain point for enterprises and a hindrance to security. Customers often aren’t aware of every identity they manage, can have limited visibility into how many entitlements are being used once set, and outliers and unused access can be difficult to see. SailPoint is addressing this problem by harnessing AI and machine learning to give complete visibility of all access through a single view, provide insight into identity and access — in other words, the ability to find and address hidden risk, identify and eliminate Shadow IT, and address access risk before it’s provisioned — and automate access with smart recommendations that helps users make educated access decisions reducing decision time from months to days or even hours. 

In addition to the lack of visibility, we find organizations are often trying to manage and secure all identities in their enterprise manually which is a nearly impossible feat. Most enterprises house thousands to millions of identities, each with varying access requirements that change constantly based on business needs. Customers are challenged with more applications than ever that must be connected and governed, approvers are being asked to review hundreds or thousands of items, and delays in approval mean lost productivity. SailPoint solves this issue for customers through its investments in automation. For example, in Q4 2021, we launched our SaaS-based Workflows beta program which empowers customers to automate security tasks with no coding required. SailPoint’s SaaS-based Workflows are easy to build, tailor and test, automate actions across multiple applications, reduce manual tasks and processes, empower admins while reducing workload, and more.

In today’s “Operations Anywhere” environment enterprises need its security solution to integrate with other applications. We know that identity can’t be successful on its own. SailPoint’s seamless integration with our customers’ digital ecosystem, extends their ability to embed identity context across their environment and centrally control access to all data, applications, systems, and cloud infrastructure for all identity types. In the cloud, on-premises, or hybrid — SailPoint, meets its customers where they are. Always secure. Always compliant.

Where Technology Meets Humanity

Our approach to identity security is simple: to help our customers succeed. So it fills us with pride when we hear customers, in this case GE, say, “Only SailPoint’s identity platform could scale at the rate that our growing, global organization requires. The cost savings and increased efficiency delivered by SailPoint has been a huge win for GE.”

It’s our commitment to exceeding our customers’ needs that fuels us to stay ahead of the dynamic security landscape and has solidified our place as an industry leader. SailPoint was named a leader in “The Forrester Wave™: Identity Management and Governance, Q4 2021,” by Forrester Research, Inc., receiving the top ranking in all three evaluation categories: Current Offering, Strategy, and Market Presence. But we won’t stop there. 

At the core of identity security is cutting-edge technology backed by SailPoint, a place where technology meets humanity, committed to protecting businesses against security threats. Welcome to the core identity security for the modern enterprise.

Discover how our experience and expertise can help at SailPoint.com