AI-Driven Identity Security Blog

Authored by Ana Hilstad, Senior Product Marketing Manager

The attack surface for organizations is exponentially growing as the number of applications, types of identities, and complexity of their unstructured data continue to rise. According to a recent industry report, governing access manually, often across dozens of disparate systems, without the necessary information to understand who should get access is like still an all too common practice for upwards of 64% of organizations.     

Applying AI to Accelerate Improved Performance of Your Identity Security Program

Historically, identity security was not discussed on an executive level. But thankfully, that has changed. This shift was apparent throughout the sessions on the expo hall floor and in many of SailPoint’s customer conversations held at the Gartner IAM Conference two weeks ago.   

The digital landscape is changing quickly. The number of apps in use by the average enterprise increased by 20% in 2020, according to a recent Netskope threat report. Organizations with 500-2,000 employees now use approximately 700 cloud apps monthly. Data shows us that security teams manage access to hundreds of applications for thousands of users within their organizations. It’s no secret that IT and security teams struggle to keep up with access control and governance. 

For almost two decades now, SailPoint has invested in its people and products to be able to answer these exact concerns from our customers. A majority of SailPoint’s AI-Driven Identity Security capabilities do not require historical data, and value is attainable from day 1. Let’s delve into some of these use cases.

SailPoint’s AI-Driven Identity Security capabilities automate the creation and management of ALL user access. Automation allows organizations to not only make better access decisions based on forward looking insights, but also makes security teams more productive by proactively engaging business users when risky access is detected. Learn about the newest Access Insights capabilities including:

• The Identity Outlier Score, a standardized way to measure access risk across your organization
• Contextual Insights, which provide the information needed to understand which factors contributed to identifying identities as access anomalies
• The Access Intelligence Center, SailPoint’s access data visualization tool with persona-based dashboards and reporting capabilities

From user onboarding and access/change requests to certifications, password resets, and stopping risky access – already overloaded security and IT teams are facing mounting responsibilities concerning organizational and change management. One might say these responsibilities go beyond what’s humanly possible to perform successfully.  

“Today, as never before, organizations need to perform IAM tasks quickly and accurately, with maximum security, but with the least annoyance to users and minimum disruption to the business.”¹ How can Security/IT resources achieve this conflicting balance? 

Having been a business manager myself, I know well about certification fatigue when it comes to identity security and access control. A few times a year, the managers get the list of entitlements to review for his/her team. Without context, many of them are just rubber stamping and approving everything, fearing that they may accidentally revoke the needed access for the employees. As a result, overprovisioning and noncompliance happen. What if the managers are provided with insights to make informed decisions? How about less certification and more revocation?

Identity for Healthcare: More than ever, vulnerabilities in identity security policies and the control of access to applications, data, and infrastructure have been exposed.  Learn valuable insights on how to make identity security the foundation of a modern healthcare cybersecurity strategy. Read more

We built our “Role Quality and Filtering” feature on the understanding that our users need a trusted guide in a complex environment. Creating an access model is challenging. We provide a clear understanding and guidance into our Access Modeling product’s roles. Read more

What if you could discover risky identities within an organization as easily as you search for your next favorite song on Spotify? Leverage SailPoint’s security expertise to surface Outlier identities. Press “remediate” or “ignore” to train the AI/ML to adapt to your organization’s unique security preferences.

Security professionals, identity managers, and IT operations teams are under growing pressure to keep workers productive while ensuring their organizations are protected from security threats. In today's dynamic IT environment, a human-based identity security approach can no longer keep up. Organizations are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to address these challenges.