Identity Intelligence Insider: The SailPoint Podcast Series

Identity management is one area of IT security that provides not only insurance against security threats and non-compliance, but also demonstrates true business value and cost savings. The key to getting the resources you need to plan, implement and manage a complete identity management program is in making a compelling case to your executives. This on-demand webinar, designed especially for IT Security executives, outlines the steps to building a business case for your identity management program. You'll learn how to demonstrate your project's potential for delivering real, demonstrable and repeatable ROI to the organization.

A new generation of identity management solutions is emerging, built on an identity governance framework and designed to address business, compliance and governance challenges that legacy provisioning systems cannot. In this "A New Dawn for Identity Management – Next-Generation Provisioning and Lifecycle Process Automation" webinar, SailPoint explains the evolving business requirements that have changed the nature of identity management, and outlines the technical limitations that make legacy solutions too complex and difficult to implement. And then, we detail a new, governance-based approach to lifecycle management and user provisioning which will enable you to meet your identity management goals faster than ever imagined.

To address strengthened HIPAA requirements, healthcare providers now need to define and institute an identity management program that is best aligned with the requirements associated with Meaningful Use. "Identity Management – Front and Center for Healthcare Providers" will share a case study and get a recommended plan of action that will help you to facilitate the transition to digitized healthcare records, increase incentive eligibility by demonstrating meaningful use of EHR systems, and streamline the access certification process across clinical, business and financial applications. Presbyterian Healthcare Services' Aaron Frankel, IT Security Manager, discusses how they intend to mature the internal IT controls around business and clinical applications by certifying user access privileges and creating preventative controls to protect electronic health records (EHR) and why they turned to Logic Trends and selected SailPoint to mitigate the risk associated with user access privileges, and their plans for meeting business requirements.

Identity governance plays a critical role in helping organizations address security and compliance issues by providing a centralized, holistic approach to identity management for all enterprise applications, regardless of whether they are deployed. In the "Extending Identity Governance to the Cloud" webinar, you'll hear how SailPoint's Identity Governance Cloud Solution can quickly expand your governance and provisioning activities beyond the datacenter to the cloud.

Beginning July 1st, 2008, all energy producers and distributors in the U.S. and Canada were required to be auditably compliant with the NERC CIP reliability standards. But what exactly does that mean, especially if you have taken steps to address many of the requirements already? During "Achieve "Auditable Compliance" with NERC CIP Standards", Michael Rasmussen of Corporate Integrity joins SailPoint's Jackie Gilbert to review the latest NERC CIP requirements, what's needed and the critical role identity governance plays in achieving the next level of compliance.

The cost of periodic audits of user access is becoming a big drain on scarce company resources. As organizations remain focused on minimizing costs, the quality and coverage of these audits have been impacted as audit teams try to manage the same – or in some cases – additional workload with smaller teams. Unfortunately, without automated and sustainable processes and tools in place, organizations will continue to struggle to cost-effectively manage risk. In this webinar, audit and identity management professionals from PricewaterhouseCoopers and SailPoint, will introduce a proven approach that reduces assessment costs using a set of tools and accelerators to more effectively and efficiently identify gaps in identity governance and compliance. And, you'll learn how to improve audit performance and drive sustainable, compliant processes for managing user access.

A recent survey showed that about half of employees would take some form of company property (customer data, electronic files, product information or small office supplies) when they left a company. Mark McClain, SailPoint's CEO, discusses with Network World Panorama's Keith Shaw the new realities of who owns data at a company, and the reasons for a shifting attitude among employees.

With increasing regulatory requirements and constant employee churn, having a systematic access certification process in place becomes critical. The process of collecting entitlement data across applications and systems and correlating it with users is complex and time-consuming for IT teams. For many organizations, access certifications are also prone to human error and are often inaccurate. With no repeatable process in place, the overall certification process becomes inconsistent, unreliable and difficult to manage. In this "Improving Access Certifications for Enhanced Security and Lower Costs" webinar, identity management professionals from PricewaterhouseCoopers and SailPoint will offer lessons learned from real-world deployments and show you how you can quickly improve the operational efficiency and accuracy of your certification process.

Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures are prevalent in today's business climate. IT teams are trying to manage dynamic user populations requiring them to quickly and effectively add, manage or remove access privileges to critical systems and information for hundreds or even thousands of individuals at a time. During this "Minimizing Business Risk during a Merger, Acquisition or Divestiture" webinar, seasoned identity management executives from SailPoint and Mycroft will offer practical guidance for building a winning plan that effectively manages access risk during a merger, acquisition or divestiture. You'll also learn about some innovative deployment scenarios that lessen the burden on IT staff and dwindling budgets.

One of the top 15 banks in the world is working with SailPoint to improve its compliance performance and overall risk posture. SailPoint delivered with an identity governance solution and within 60 days, the bank had launched a fully-automated access certification process across 29 SOX-relevant applications. The deployment included cleansing and centralizing identity data for over 25,000 users. This "Improving SOX Compliance in 60 Days across 29 Applications" webinar will provide an overview of the customer's challenges, business requirements and deployment process. It'll reveal the tangible benefits realized with SailPoint IdentityIQ.