SailPoint Technologies, which specialises in enterprise identity security solutions, has added new intelligence features to its cloud-based offering that is aimed at hastening and standardising the measurement of access risk across the organisation.
The new features, which leverage AI technologies, also enables the automation of complex identity security process. They also reduce both business cost and risk while improving productivity.
Chern-Yue Boey, senior vice president, Asia-Pacific, SailPoint, noted businesses today operate in digital environments that are significantly more complex with the explosion of new digital identities.
"With up to hundreds of thousands of digital identities to manage across various IT environments, this challenge is further exacerbated by the present shortfall of cybersecurity talent, increasingly rigorous compliance regulations, and the escalating cost of cyber insurance,” he said.
He added organisations need the right resources to address these challenges especially with the expanding attack surface today, but often struggle with not knowing where to start on their identity security journey,” said Boey.
“Our aim is to equip businesses with the capabilities needed, and enable them to build identity security playbooks that are simple, user-friendly and are operationally effective."
The combination of advanced intelligence, automation, and integration capabilities allows SailPoint Identity Security Cloud to effectively govern access to new applications and resources as they are added to user environments.
Rewriting the identity security playbook
Newly added to SailPoint Identity Security Cloud are additional intelligence capabilities, including contextual insights into access anomalies and persona-based reporting. These insights are powered by AI and build on SailPoint’s heritage as the first company to drive the vision of AI into identity security.
The platform now generates what it claims as an industry-first Outlier Score with deep contextual insights, standardising the measurement of access anomalies and providing deeper insights into what factors contributed to the Outlier Score.
Comprehensive persona-based dashboards and reporting provide simple data visualisation, making information easier for business stakeholders such as internal auditors and identity program sponsors to understand and analyse.
New SaaS Workflows templates
In addition to the new intelligent capabilities, SailPoint also released new SaaS Workflows templates to help organisations automate identity tasks across systems.
Whether it is identifying and de-provisioning access for unused SaaS applications based on activity data or automatically generating an access review using the new Outlier score, these new templates will allow organizations to improve efficiency and security across their identity systems.
SailPoint’s recently released ‘The Horizons of Identity’ report indicates that the number of identities in use will only continue to grow over the next 3-5 years.
SailPoint Identity Security Cloud is designed to address – at scale – the need and desire for more robust automation capabilities, allowing administrators to automate complex and repetitive identity security processes, including identifying and deprovisioning underutilised SaaS accounts, notifying or disabling accounts when outliers are detected, and certifying access for uncorrelated accounts.
Not only do these capabilities provide stronger security controls, but they also help organisations meet regulatory compliance through automated certification of orphaned accounts.
The ability to prove security compliance is particularly important as the Wall Street Journal reports that the cost of obtaining or renewing cyber insurance has risen 79% over the past year. Demonstrating basic security capabilities can keep premiums lower. Simplifying compliance also creates a more user-friendly environment, freeing up administrators for more engaging and productive tasks.
With out-of-the-box integration capabilities, SailPoint Identity Security is designed to work seamlessly with existing security tools and allows customers to get up and running quickly.
