SailPoint

SailPoint is an enterprise identity security company specializing in identity governance and administration (IGA) for large and complex organizations. Its platform provides comprehensive capabilities for managing who has access to what, ensuring that access rights are appropriate, and automating the access lifecycle from onboarding through role changes to offboarding.

Identity governance is the process of ensuring that users have the right access to the right resources at the right time, and that this access is visible, auditable, and compliant with regulatory requirements. In large organizations with thousands of employees and hundreds of applications, managing access manually is impractical and error-prone. SailPoint automates this governance through policy-based access management, continuous certification, and intelligent access recommendations.

SailPoint IdentityNow is the cloud-native identity governance platform that provides the core IGA capabilities including access request management, access certifications, provisioning, role management, separation of duties enforcement, and identity analytics. The platform connects to the organization's authoritative HR system (Workday, SAP, etc.) to know who should have access, and to target applications and directories to manage what access they actually have.

Access certifications (also called access reviews or recertification campaigns) are a critical compliance capability. Periodically, managers and application owners are asked to review the access their team members or users have and certify that it is still appropriate. SailPoint automates the scheduling, notification, workflow routing, and remediation of access certifications, turning a manual quarterly process into an automated, continuous governance activity.

AI-driven access recommendations in SailPoint use machine learning to analyze the access patterns of similar users (peers with similar job functions, departments, and locations) and recommend whether access should be approved, revoked, or flagged for review. These recommendations improve the quality of access decisions and reduce the burden on reviewers who would otherwise need to manually evaluate each access item.

SailPoint's File Access Manager extends governance capabilities to unstructured data stored in file shares, SharePoint, OneDrive, and cloud storage, providing visibility into who has access to sensitive files and enabling cleanup of excessive file permissions.

SailPoint Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management (CIEM) extends identity governance to cloud infrastructure entitlements in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, providing visibility and remediation capabilities for over-privileged cloud roles and excessive cloud permissions.

SailPoint integrates with hundreds of enterprise systems including HR platforms, directories, cloud providers, SaaS applications, databases, and custom applications through a rich connector ecosystem and open APIs.