HIGHER EDUCATION IDENTITY SECURITY
Ensure quick, secure user access for all identities
Modernize your IT with intelligent identity security. Give faculty, staff, and students quick, secure access to applications and files while protecting sensitive data.
Overview
Empower students and staff with easy access
Faculty, staff, and students need quick and easy access to applications and data. At the same time, higher education institutions must safeguard personal information and comply with regulations like the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Higher education institutions have complex user populations where a single staff member may have multiple affiliations. This complexity cannot be safely managed manually.
SailPoint’s intelligent AI-driven identity security reduces cyber risk with automated access as someone joins, changes roles, or leaves and enables convenient fast self-service access requests and password resets.
With SailPoint, colleges and universities can control user access to data with an easy-to-use dashboard, ensuring that programmed policies are applied automatically across the institution -- even when resources are limited.
Quickly enable faculty, staff, and students with the right access
Improve user satisfaction with quick self-service password reset
Save IT time by automating provisioning and deprovisioning
Be audit ready and achieve compliance with automated reporting
Identify potential risks with AI insights to prevent costly breaches
Analyst report
2024 Gartner® Market Guide for Identity Governance and Administration
Explore key factors shaping IGA in this Gartner® report. Discover vendor evaluation recommendations, market insights, feature prioritization guidance, and emerging trends to optimize your identity security approach.
Benefits
Facilitate secure user access
Boost user satisfaction with fast access
Empower staff and students to complete tasks themselves with self-service access requests and password resets.
Reduce IT burden and cost
Automate time-intensive provisioning and deprovisioning. Spend less time managing your identity program so you can focus on other competing priorities.
Improve compliance and audit performance
Stay compliant with regulations including FERPA, GDPR, and CCPA and improve audit performance with automated policies that review access rights.
Reduce risk of data breaches
Prevent risk from overprovisioning and turn vast amounts of identity data into actionable insights so you can spot potential risks faster.
Increase visibility into students, employees, and contractors
Get a 360 degree view into user populations with diverse identities including applicants, students, alumni, faculty, staff and non-employee contractors.
Secure identities with multiple affiliations
Manage access with multiple authoritative sources within complex higher education user populations. Secure individuals with one-to-many roles such as student, staff, and volunteer.
Seamlessly connect applications
Integrate credentialing, HR, ERP, learning management, and other applications to create an identity security ecosystem.
Customer Stories
SailPoint is the foundation for the future
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SailPoint Identity Security Cloud enables organization to manage and secure real-time access to critical data and applications for every enterprise identity with an intelligent and unified approach.
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Frequently asked questions
Data security is complex, and knowing where to start can be a challenge when you’re investing in a product or solution. We’re here to help. Find answers to common questions below.
Do you have a full list of integrations?
Yes. You can find our Connector Directory on our Compass Community.
How do you manage and secure the lifecycle of third-parties?
SailPoint Non-Employee Risk Management (NERM) offers a comprehensive solution for the creation and management of sponsored guest accounts. It enables organizations to manage various types of sponsored accounts, such as contractors, consultants, alumni, guest faculty, volunteers, onsite guests, and freelancers, with distinct configurations tailored to each type.
How do you manage multiple personas such as a student worker or faculty taking classes?
There are multiple ways SailPoint can help manage multiple personas and affiliations. For example, building an RBAC Program with SailPoint enables you to manage a single identity’s access across a diverse set of applications and systems. Read more: Managing multiple-role identities in higher education.
How do universities match identities to prevent duplicates with SailPoint?
SailPoint consolidates data from multiple sources and creates a central identity repository. In the process, we use a fuzzy matching technique to identify duplicate users and accounts, even if the data isn’t always perfect. Think of it like a search engine that understands typos and variations. We are looking for close matches and depending on the uniqueness, we can recommend a match or raise a notification to conduct further analysis. Learn more.
How does SailPoint complement Active Directory?
While Active Directory’s access control focuses primarily on user authentication, SailPoint identity security governs and manages access rights across various applications and systems, providing advanced features like access request workflows, automated provisioning, and compliance controls, making it ideal for complex enterprise environments where granular access management is crucial. Learn more.
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