Who has access to what , who should have access to what , and how is that access being used ?
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Who has access to what , who should have access to what , and how is that access being used ?
These three key questions are critical ( and often headache-inducing ) for any company when it comes to managing its data – and they are precisely the questions identity governance platform SailPoint looks to answer .
In an increasingly cloud-based world where end-users as well as staff and companies are rightly becoming increasingly concerned with what happens to their data , SailPoint aims to help companies manage digital identities so that access can be clearly defined and securely managed .
Having grown into a $ 2.2bn NYSE-listed company , Austin-based software developer SailPoint dates back over a decade but went public in November 2017 , achieving a value of over $ 1bn on its first day of trading , with an IPO that raised $ 240mn .
CEO Mark McClain recalls the client server era of the early 1990s . “ You had tonnes of Unix servers and Windows servers all over the place .” In 2000 , McClain founded identity management company Waveset Technologies , growing the business 250 % year on year for the first three years before it was acquired by the then-giant Sun Microsystems .
The main issue McClain was dealing with in his Waveset days is known as joiner / mover / leaver : the granting of
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