SailPoint, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise identity security solutions, has unveiled a series of updates to its SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, introducing new capabilities for Non-Employee Risk Management, Machine Identity Security, and expanded connectivity features.

“As digital ecosystems evolve, organizations must manage not only human identities but also machine and agent identities, which often surpass the capabilities of traditional tools,” said Chandra Gnanasambandam, EVP of Product and CTO at SailPoint. “These unmanaged or under-governed identities create security gaps and excess privileges. SailPoint addresses these challenges through advanced features that combine automation, contextual intelligence, and precise governance at scale.”

SailPoint Identity Security Cloud: Comprehensive Identity Management

The Identity Security Cloud platform is designed to cover all types of enterprise identities—employees, contractors, machines, and agents. It integrates lifecycle management with intelligent automation to close critical gaps left by legacy systems.

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New enhancements focus on simplifying governance and expanding automation. By automating identity lifecycle processes, minimizing standing privileges, and embedding context-rich controls, enterprises can reduce risk without compromising agility. Features like flexible access models, streamlined reconciliation, and safe task delegation allow teams to move quickly while ensuring compliance and enhancing visibility and control across the enterprise.

“We are not just ticking boxes incrementally,” Gnanasambandam added. “Our unified platform gives enterprises a strategic advantage: the ability to act faster while staying secure.”

Non-Employee Risk Management: Securing the Extended Workforce

SailPoint’s Non-Employee Risk Management capabilities have been strengthened through integration with Microsoft Entra Verified ID, enabling the use of verifiable third-party credentials and biometric verification. This allows faster, high-assurance onboarding of non-employees while supporting bulk approvals, attribute synchronization, and direct role provisioning. The updates ensure that third-party identities can be governed at the same pace and scale as employees, reducing manual effort and eliminating blind spots.

Luca Barezzani, ICT Security Senior Specialist at Illimity Bank, highlighted, “SailPoint’s Non-Employee Risk Management allows us to automate the Joiner-Mover-Leaver cycle for consultants. Internal contacts can manage these identities directly, bypassing IT tickets or approvals, while securely handling the personal data required for critical applications.”

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Machine Identity Security: Scalable Governance

With machine identities growing rapidly, SailPoint Machine Identity Security is designed to address governance gaps at scale. The platform provides discovery, classification, and ownership of machine accounts while enabling organizations to link them to responsible humans.

New features, such as multi-host classification and machine account sub-types, allow organizations to define rules once and apply them across multiple sources, ensuring consistent discovery and management of service accounts, bots, and shared accounts. Ownership assignment, succession planning, and centralized views of machine access entitlements enhance accountability, enforce least privilege, and provide enterprises with the same rigor in managing machine identities as human identities.

Connectivity: Expanded Integrations and Strengthened Security

SailPoint has expanded its connectivity capabilities, including broader SAP GRC Firefighter access, enhanced Virtual Appliance (VA) functionality, and integrations with tools like BeyondTrust, MacOS password reset, and JDBC for low-code provisioning. These updates complement the recent SailPoint Advanced Application Management release, delivering comprehensive application visibility, compliance, and governance.

The acquisition of assets from Savvy further enhances SailPoint’s ability to unify and simplify connectivity at scale, enabling organizations to protect business-critical applications more efficiently through an adaptive identity framework.

Matt Mills, President of SailPoint, concluded, “With identities multiplying faster than ever, enterprises need visibility, control, and agility to safeguard what matters most. By unifying governance across every identity type, SailPoint closes gaps left by siloed, legacy approaches, providing the confidence organizations need to thrive in today’s digital landscape.”

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