SailPoint brings AI to identity management

Enterprise identity management company SailPoint is using the Navigate '17 event to preview its new identity analytics solution, IdentityAI.

By adding analytics to SailPoint's existing open identity platform it will enable customers to improve their identity governance and mitigate potential threats.

The new platform will allow organizations to manage risk by detecting and alerting on anomalous behaviors and potential threats, using artificial intelligence technology to perform peer group analysis, behavioral pattern matching and statistical analysis. The machine learning engine is able to scan massive amounts of identity data to identify risks without having to rely on teams of security experts.

IdentityAI also makes identity smarter by contextualizing and focusing identity governance controls on high risk scenarios and conditions -- such as anomalous or inappropriate access events -- by initiating automated governance actions in real-time. It improves operational efficiency of the IT organization and business productivity too, by automating identity governance activities for routine and low-risk access.

"In cybersecurity, visibility is everything. Unfortunately, we are all too often blind to hackers' actions until it’s far too late," says SailPoint president and co-founder Kevin Cunningham. "Business managers lack the deep understanding and risk context needed to make critical access decisions, while security and operations teams struggle with a high number of 'false positives.' As a result, many breaches go undetected for extended periods of time, resulting in greater loss of data and financial exposure, subsequent customer churn and brand reputation damage. What's needed today is a tool that sorts through the incredible amount of identity data that security operations teams must 'see through' to detect a potential ongoing breach."

You can find out more on the SailPoint website.

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