Sallie Mae and Societe Generale Select SailPoint for Identity Governance and Compliance

AUSTIN, Texas, April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- SailPoint today announced that Sallie Mae and Societe Generale have chosen SailPoint IdentityIQ™ to automate and streamline their identity-related compliance processes. SailPoint IdentityIQ, an award-winning identity governance solution, helps corporations of all sizes keep track of who has access to critical applications, data and IT systems while greatly reducing audit and compliance costs. A comprehensive view of user identity data enables customers like Sallie Mae and Societe Generale to more easily comply with regulations that require regular audits and certification of access privileges, including SOX, FISMA, Basel II, PCI and the European Union's Data Protection Directive.

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"As a publicly-traded company and financial services provider, we are subject to a variety of regulations including FISMA, SOX, PCI, and SAS 70," said Jerry Archer, chief security officer for Sallie Mae. "To meet these requirements, we are standardizing and automating our compliance processes for identity management, so that we can centrally control who gets access to sensitive resources and maintain compliance as the organization changes over time. This centralized and automated approach allows us to proactively address risk and more efficiently maintain a compliant, secure environment."

Identity governance provides companies with an enterprise-wide view of who has access to sensitive or proprietary information and applications. This allows them to analyze risk, make better decisions, and implement the appropriate controls for achieving and maintaining compliance. It also reduces the cost of compliance by creating a consistent, reliable and auditable process to manage access certification and policy enforcement.

"The compliance burden that global companies face will continue to grow in 2010 through additional industry regulations and stronger enforcement of existing mandates," said Kevin Cunningham, president and founder of SailPoint. "SailPoint IdentityIQ provides companies with the necessary visibility to better understand the risks associated with user access privileges on sensitive information systems, allowing them to strengthen controls and automate compliance processes across the enterprise."

SailPoint's customers include seven top tier global banks, four of the world's biggest property and casualty insurers, one of the largest global telecommunications providers, three of the top four U.S. managed healthcare providers, and two of the largest healthcare and biotechnology manufacturers in the world. For more information about how your company can use IdentityIQ to address your identity and access governance issues, please visit: http://www.sailpoint.com.

About SailPoint

SailPoint's award-winning identity governance software, SailPoint IdentityIQ, helps organizations manage user access to critical systems and data, automate costly IT provisioning processes, streamline compliance efforts and reduce the risks of fraud, corporate data loss or theft and failed audits. SailPoint's marquee customer list includes: seven top tier global banks; four of the world's biggest property and casualty insurers; one of the largest global telecommunications providers; three of the top four U.S. managed healthcare providers; and two of the largest healthcare and biotechnology manufacturers in the world. Privately-held SailPoint is based in Austin, Texas.

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