Identity Intelligence Insider: The SailPoint Podcast Series

Paul Trulove, Director of Product Marketing at SailPoint, talks with Mike Amadei, Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, about the continued challenges associated with managing changes to user access within today's large enterprise. From quickly and efficiently on-boarding new users, to managing access during job changes, organizations are clamoring for a new approach to an old problem. They evaluate why existing solutions aren't effectively addressing the problem and discuss what companies can do today to improve how they manage the access request and change process in their organization.

Today’s turbulent economy has led to a rise in activity around corporate mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, layoffs. SailPoint’s CEO, Mark McClain joins Terry Jost, CEO of Mycroft, for this timely and relevant podcast. They talk about the employee churn taking place in employee populations as a direct result of these rapid business transformations, and the potential risks they create. You’ll learn how these factors are affecting organizations’ IT and business risk posture as well as the important role of identity governance in these environments.  And, you’ll gain practical guidance into how you can survive the toughest of times with a solid plan that takes you from the transaction to transition and beyond.

SailPoint recently conducted a market-pulse survey on identity and access challenges during a recession which gave us a first glimpse into the economy's impact on security and compliance. In this podcast, Jackie Gilbert, VP Marketing and co-founder of SailPoint, talks with Paul Trulove, Director, Product Management at SailPoint about the survey findings and delves into the top-of-mind identity and access governance issues for 2009. They discuss how organizations must improve how they are managing access to critical IT resources within their organizations in order to avoid security breaches, failed audits and non-compliance. They also offer some practical advice to help you manage access and improve your risk posture today.

Enterprise role management is quickly becoming a critical technology for enabling organizations to enforce regulatory policies and to audit the effectiveness of user access control. Unfortunately, complexity and marketplace confusion impedes companies in their search for an approach that delivers practical and timely results. SailPoint’s VP of marketing and co-founder, Jackie Gilbert, talks with Debbie Cuadros of Simeio Solutions about the challenges that role management can address, and gets some practical guidance for defining the project scope and quickly achieving tangible benefits with roles.

Mark McClain, SailPoint’s CEO and founder, was recently interviewed by Jason Meserve, a reporter with Network World for the Network World Panorama Podcast series. They discuss how identity management can be a challenge when business people and IT don't collaborate on who has permissions to do what on a given system. This can lead to fraud and internal threats to data systems. Mark talks about how to aggregate user login information and share in a non-technical way with business leaders to ensure greater system security.

Mark McClain, CEO and Founder of SailPoint, joins Mike Amadei, Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers for a follow-up to a recent panel discussion they participated in during the Digital ID World Conference in Anaheim, CA. They cover some of the business drivers for identity management – including, of course, compliance – but also take a look at the impact of the recent economic conditions and the economic downturn. They explain how they’re seeing identity governance step up to address risk and protect sensitive data from insiders, sabotage and security breaches.

Dana Gardner principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, talks about a serious and potentially catastrophic set of issues for many companies concerning security and risk aversion around personnel, applications, and IT systems. He joins SailPoint’s own, Mark McClain and Jackie Gilbert, as they review how companies can more properly manage identity information and access rules for the users of applications and systems. And, they provide some insights into a new class of solutions to this growing problem.

IT GRC has become a loaded term, high on expectations but far too often short on specifics. In this podcast, Scott Crawford, Research Director for EMA, talks about his latest research finding from EMA’s 2008 Survey of IT GRC Management in the Real World. He sheds light on how IT GRC is defined and understood by organizations today, what high-performers are doing to be effective, and the crucial role that identity and access management play in this process.

Jackie Gilbert, VP of Marketing and Founder, interviews Darran Rolls, CTO for SailPoint, on his call for the identity development community to collaborate and develop a new standard for role interoperability and exchange. He explains why this is needed and outlines a couple of use cases for open role exchange. Learn more at www.openroleexchange.org.

Jackie Gilbert speaks with Kevin Cunningham, SailPoint President, and Darran Rolls, CTO, about their recent visit to Europe and participation in the 2nd European Identity Conference with KuppingerCole. They share thoughts on the similarities and differences they found between the US and European identity management markets today.

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.