SailPoint and Corporate Integrity to Discuss NERC CIP Reliability Standards

AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- North American energy producers and distributors face a looming challenge – to become "auditably compliant" with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) reliability standards by July 1st, 2010. Complying with the CIP standards, which place stringent requirements on companies to document and demonstrate compliance, can be a daunting task unless companies put the right people, processes, and technology in place. To help energy companies better understand and address these challenges, SailPoint is hosting a live webinar with Michael Rasmussen of Corporate Integrity.

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During the webinar, Rasmussen and SailPoint will review the NERC CIP standards, explain what is needed and outline the critical role identity governance plays in achieving the next level of compliance. They will share a case study of an energy delivery company that has successfully aligned access controls to business policy and implemented automated controls to lower its compliance costs and improve its risk posture.

Webinar attendees will learn how to:

• Run a risk-based assessment to identify and focus security and access controls on the organization's most critical resources;
• Implement processes to ensure that access privileges are correct and appropriate to personnel roles and responsibilities, including access certifications, access request approvals, and access policy enforcement;
• Achieve auditable compliance with NERC CIP standards leveraging an automated and repeatable process for risk management;
• Engage the key players in the organization and provide the right level of information they need to effectively participate in the process; and
• Build a sustainable, risk-based approach to NERC compliance using identity governance technology.

SailPoint has also published a whitepaper, "A New Approach to Meeting NERC CIP Reliability Standard," which details how companies can build a cost-effective, risk-based approach to NERC CIP compliance and explains how SailPoint IdentityIQ helps to achieve "auditable compliance" without burdening the business with excessive costs. The whitepaper can be downloaded at: http://www.sailpoint.com/resources/index.php?dlid=OJ6SRTEEWKNXA.

About SailPoint

SailPoint's award-winning identity governance software, SailPoint IdentityIQ™, helps organizations gain control over user access to critical systems and data, streamline costly IT compliance processes and reduce the risks of fraud, corporate data loss or theft and failed audits. SailPoint's customers are Global 1000 organizations focused on compliance and risk mitigation initiatives, including 5 of the world's top 10 banks and some of the largest consumer, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, and telecom companies. Founded in December 2005, SailPoint is based in Austin, Texas.

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