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Partnering with business leaders to simplify and accelerate their security programs since 2005, SailPoint announced the launch of Workflows during the company's annual conference Navigate 2021: Confidence Redefined. This new visual tool empowers SailPoint customers to automate security tasks with no coding required.
SailPoint Technologies announced the appointment of Ron Green to the SailPoint Board of Directors, effective on July 27, 2021. The Board determined that Mr. Green is independent, a term defined under the listing standards of the New York Stock Exchange.
SailPoint announced the appointment of Wendy Wu as Chief Marketing Officer. "Wendy is a savvy, growth-focused marketing leader, and we're thrilled to welcome her aboard," said Matt Mills, President, Worldwide Field Operations, SailPoint.
With this acquisition, SailPoint unites identity security with separation of duties access controls monitoring for an organization's most critical applications, like SAP. This integrated approach addresses the growing risk of over-permissioned, excessive or conflicting access to business-critical systems and the sensitive financial, business and operational data within. "ERP Maestro brings an experienced team with a rich heritage in ERP-focused audit and compliance, coupled with a SaaS access control solution that will help us to extend identity security to wrap in SoD monitoring and access controls for our customers' most critical systems, including SAP and others," said Grady Summers, SailPoint's EVP of Products.
SailPoint announced the appointment of Heather Gantt-Evans as the company's new Chief Information Security Officer. In this role, Heather will be responsible for the overall cybersecurity of SailPoint's products, systems, and data as the company continues its global expansion.
Ride-sharing giant Uber has quietly snapped up veteran security leader Latha Maripuri to be its Chief Information Security Officer. Uber has been without a formal security chief since the departure of John 'Four' Flynn in July 2020.
Delivering on the SailPoint vision to embed identity into the cloud enterprise's digital fabric, SailPoint announced additional extensibility functionality to its platform. To enable customers and partners to find value with the updates, SailPoint also introduced the new SailPoint Developer Community to help them move quickly and with less effort.
Autonomous identity is no longer a far-out destination; it's just up ahead. SailPoint announced a series of planned updates to its SaaS identity platform to enable enterprises to automate important identity processes that match the speed and pace of today's dynamic business environment. The new features, which include role insights and access request recommendations, leverage machine learning algorithms to deliver on the SailPoint Predictive Identity vision.
SailPoint's latest updates to the SailPoint Predictive Identity platform will be the co-pilot in any organization's security strategy, safeguarding the remote workforce's access needs. Over the past few months, SailPoint quickly acted to help organizations connect to necessary remote workforce collaboration applications like Zoom and Slack, introduced earlier this year.
SailPoint announced extended collaboration efforts with Microsoft by joining the Microsoft One Commercial Partner Program. SailPoint already integrates with Microsoft Azure Active Directory to deliver integrated and secure access to all applications, data, and cloud infrastructure like the Azure Cloud Platform.