Identity Intelligence Insider: The SailPoint Podcast Series

Join SailPoint’s co-founder and VP of Marketing, Jackie Gilbert, and Paul
Trulove, SailPoint’s Director of Product Marketing, for a review of the book, IT Risk: Turning Business Threats into Competitive Advantage, written by George Westerman and Richard Hunter. Summarizing smart insights and key takeaways from their reading, they highlight some of the big ideas and recommendations offered by the authors and how these are relevant to the IT trends and challenges organizations are dealing with today. Finally, they offer some practical steps for moving towards a more risk-aware culture to effectively tackle IT risk.

Mark McClain CEO and founder of SailPoint Technologies, speaks to Scott Crawford, Research Director and Security & Risk Management Practice Manager at Enterprise Management Associates, about the recent $7.2B Société Générale loss – the largest known banking fraud in history – and consider the role that access control failures may have played. Following an examination of the case, Crawford and McClain outline five basic issues and related exposures that can contribute to a control failure and offer practical guidance for preventing similar incidents.

Jackie Gilbert, VP of Marketing and Founder, interviews Darran Rolls, CTO for SailPoint, on the subject of role-based access control (RBAC), and its relevance to identity management and compliance projects. Darran tackles the controversial topic concerning the difference in roles for provisioning and roles for compliance and where they can, ultimately, come together.

Jackie Gilbert, Founder and VP of Marketing for SailPoint, joins Darran Rolls, former chair of the OASIS Provisioning Services technical committee, to take a quick look at the recurring themes from this year's Digital Identity World Conference. They review key observations from conversations on the show floor and from the podium including the most pressing identity compliance challenges, emerging technologies, standards and areas ripe for convergence.

When it comes to IT compliance, both IT staff and audit/compliance personnel can agree on something. That is, what's wrong with IT compliance today and what"s needed to improve the situation. Larry Ponemon joins SailPoint Founder and VP of Marketing, Jackie Gilbert, to review the latest survey findings.

In this encore presentation from Burton Catalyst 2007, Mark McClain offers his perspective on a new generation of identity management solutions emerging in an area some call Identity Audit. He'll discuss the new challenges organizations are facing, what's required and, specifically, how identity audit differs from existing identity management solutions in addressing these problems. For best presentation, we recommend downloading the version containing slides and audio.

A candid conversation with Kevin Cunningham, President and Founder of SailPoint, about the emerging shift in identity management priorities related to the growing issues of governance and compliance. Hear why existing provisioning and role management solutions fall short of providing the necessary visibility and control, and how a new breed of solutions is emerging to address identity risk in the context of strategic business and IT processes.

We take a closer look at the results of a recent survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute. The goal of the study was to better understand how organizations are ensuring correct identity and access management (IAM) rights within their enterprises.

Mark McClain, CEO and Founder of SailPoint, talks about the evolution of identity management, the issues associated with identity governance, risk and compliance and how identity intelligence effectively addresses the challenges.