SailPoint CIEM

Control Center

Offers a consolidated overview of cloud identities, entitlements, risks (e.g., Permission Creep Index), active sessions, and potential security incidents.

Authentication

Restrict or enable access to PKI functions and data based on user roles and permissions. This ensures only authorized individuals can perform specific actions.

DevSecOps Integration

Integrates into CI/CD pipelines to scan infrastructure-as-code (IaC) templates for misconfigurations, excessive permissions, and potential vulnerabilities

Permission Governance

Ability to continuously discover all entitlements (permissions) granted to identities across cloud resources, creating a comprehensive inventory.

Multi-Cloud Compatibility

Ability to support major IaaS providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP. Wide IaaS support is crucial for organizations with a multi-cloud strategy.

Automated Rule Enforcement

Centralized policy definition (often with pre-built templates for common standards) drives access decisions and automated remediation.

Elevated Access Control

Ability to offer or integrate with dedicated PAM solutions for managing privileged accounts (admin, root, etc.).

Adaptive Configuration

Create custom policies based on roles, attributes, resources and ensures the CIEM aligns with the organization's security requirements and risk tolerance.

Quality of Features

Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Usability and Intuitiveness

End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Breadth of Features

Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Customization

Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of IT Administration

This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Availability and Quality of Training

Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Data Integration

Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Vendor Support

The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Implementation

Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Business Value Created

Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.