Explore SailPoint's partnership with IAM solution providers: Imprivata, Ping Identity, and Okta

With the end of 2024, the cybersecurity market has already gone through its fair share, be it new technologies, the introduction of AI and ML, new unified identity security models, major conferences, and so on. On the contrary, the only thing that stands out from the rest is the newly formed strategic partnership between SailPoint and Imprivata.
This Identity Security and Access Management Alliance has leveled up SailPoint’s position in the identity security industry. With the healthcare sector experiencing a massive 60% increase in cyberattacks from the previous year this strategic partnership is need of the hour.
Over the years SailPoint has collaborated with different IAM solution providers in the industry, like Imprivata, Okta, and Ping Identity, to provide the best identity solutions. This article covers the details of these partnerships and how they have influenced the security aspects of various sectors.
SailPoint and Imprivata Partnership
A brief on SailPoint and Imprivata
SailPoint, a frontrunner in Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), offers strong security solutions to give customers the power of identity. It speeds up provisioning and de-provisioning to handle user lifecycles well. It helps IT teams to manage access requests, compliance, and governance, and to see user identities and password policies.
Imprivata, a respected leader in healthcare IT security, creates solutions that make secure access to key systems easier letting doctors and nurses focus on what's most important—taking care of patients. With quick safe tools like SSO and simple MFA, it cuts down on password headaches. Made for the healthcare world, it makes access to patient records and vital systems easier and safer while helping hospitals stick to HIPAA rules.
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The Impact of SailPoint and Imprivata Partnership
The biggest strategic partnership 2024 could see is between SailPoint and Imprivata. The alliance significantly focused on providing the best identity security solutions in the healthcare industry. Its emphasis lies in solving challenges like identity security and ensuring secure, streamlined access to critical systems and patient data. This collaboration delivers a customized identity solution that meets the complex needs of the healthcare industry.
Potential Benefits the Healthcare Industry is Going to Experience
1. Streamlined Clinical Access
Imprivata excels in providing quick and secure access to clinical systems and applications, enabling healthcare providers to concentrate on patient care without interruptions. With SailPoint's integrated identity governance, healthcare organizations can guarantee that the appropriate users have the necessary access at the right moments.
2. Compliance and Auditability
In partnership, SailPoint and Imprivata assist healthcare organizations in upholding compliance with regulations such as HIPAA by implementing governance policies and simplifying access certifications.
3. Automated Identity Lifecycle Management ILM
SailPoint’s identity governance and administration (IGA) capabilities automate the processes of user provisioning and de-provisioning, ensuring that access aligns with an employee’s role. This reduces the manual effort required to grant the right access to visiting nurses and surgeons while also preventing unauthorized access.
This strategic move will help in solving healthcare’s identity challenges. SailPoint’s identity governance with Imprivata’s clinical access management, healthcare organizations can ensure timely, appropriate access to systems and data, and patient information remains secure and protected.
Ping Identity and SailPoint Partnership
A brief on Ping Identity
Ping Identity, a unified IAM solution platform, is designed to be easy to integrate with existing systems, clouds, and on-prem technologies. Out-of-the-box templates are offered to help businesses create frictionless user experiences. This platform helps companies keep their IT systems safe. It does this by offering secure ways to sign in like SSO, MFA, and tools to control access. It is adopted by big industries like banks, hospitals, and government agencies.
The Impact of the Ping Identity and SailPoint Partnership
Ping Identity and SailPoint teamed up in 2019 impacting how we handle identity management. It offers seamless integration of access management and identity governance solutions regardless of where they reside. Ping and SailPoint empower enterprises to manage the lifecycle of an identity – creating, provisioning, and giving access to admins and users.
These solutions have been working together, out of the box, with no additional costs for integration. Organizations can now strike a balance between security and a user-friendly environment, all while effectively demonstrating compliance and keeping an access audit trail for every identity.
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Major Benefits of the Ping and SailPoint Integration
Better Monitoring:
Understanding a single user’s access makes it possible for authentication on every login, approval of the user's title to the job, and responsibility assigned to the user.
Enhanced Governance & Control:
With greater management assistance through automated processes such as user provisioning, password chasing, access requests, and access certifications You can add to your productivity without raising your workload. This does away with the burden of manual work and governance policies are enforced correctly.
Uninterrupted & Safe Access:
Advanced security measures such as MFA enhance security while reducing IT workload, benefiting the user with improved authentication workflows.
Adaptable and Expandable:
The solution enables the identity ecosystem to be adaptable and expandable to the organization’s needs. Built on open standards, there is no requirement for expensive integrations.
Okta and SailPoint Partnership
A Brief on Okta
Okta is a well-known provider of identity and access management (IAM) solutions, utilizing a cloud-native model that offers extensive integrations for a ready-to-use, out-of-the-box experience. This model is purpose-built to address the needs of IT teams, end-users, and business leaders in terms of access, eliminating the need for complex customizations or lengthy setup processes.
Okta makes features such as SSO, MFA, Lifecycle Management, and API Access Management available to IT administrators to manage securely the access levels of applications and resources across their organizations and provide users with a seamless and secure experience. Over the years, Okta has been a strong proponent of zero-trust frameworks in cybersecurity, placing a significant emphasis on authentication and continuous verification.
Benefit from Okta and SailPoint Partnership:
The official partnership between Okta and SailPoint started in February 2018. This is a critical point in the IAM industry, shifting from fragmented solutions to integrated platforms, showing that experts working together can produce better results. Together, their identity and access management solutions focus on simplifying identity processes, boosting security, and ensuring compliance throughout the organization.
Together, Okta and SailPoint empower businesses to safely manage user identities and access from hire to retire across the employee lifecycle in the following ways:
Unified Identity and Access Control
Okta makes life easy and secure with Single Sign-On (SSO) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). SailPoint manages user identities and access policies, maintaining security, compliance, and governance.
Automated Provisioning and Deprovisioning
SailPoint automatically triggers workflows to create and manage user accounts in Okta.
Okta reduces the workload of IT teams with automated role assignments and access rights.
Streamlined Compliance and Auditing
SailPoint comes with detailed reporting and analytics on identity governance and compliance. Okta further provides access logs to increase visibility of what's going on within the systems and presents a clear view of the user activity.
Together, they give end-to-end audit trails and ensure the security and compliance needs of organizations are met.
With Okta and SailPoint together, it is possible to automate processes, enhance security and governance.
Conclusion
In the world of competition, SailPoint is outperforming others by collaborating with big IAM solution providers like Imprivata, and Ping Identity. SailPoint along with leveraging its strength has entered into a strategic alliance to shift the power dynamics in its favor in the identity security world. As 2024 concludes with significant updates, everyone has an eye on how 2025 is going to surprise the cybersecurity industry.Â
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