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Saviynt Vs. Sailpoint: Which IAM Tool To Choose In 2024?

Team Zluri

27th September, 2023

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Saviynt's IAM enables your IT teams to secure your organization's SaaS apps and data all in one place. It works for both cloud-based services as well as enterprise systems. 

On the other hand, SailPoint's IAM specifically focuses on IAM. It  ensures the IT team has control and visibility over user identities and access rights. 

However, both IAM tools offer distinct functionalities that you, as a CIO, can consider before making a decision on which IAM tool to choose.

Saviynt and SailPoint are popular IAM tools, so it can be difficult for you to decide which platform to choose. But you can thoroughly examine each tool's capabilities and how it caters to your IT team's specific requirements to make an informed decision.

For instance, Saviynt offers a range of features designed to help your managers accelerate the decision-making process. It empowers your team to manage access requests and approval processes from any location efficiently, ensuring flexibility and convenience. 

Furthermore, Saviynt simplifies service accounts management and offers customization options for identity governance administration (IGA) processes.

Meanwhile, SailPoint provides features that enable your IT teams to effectively manage access requests, identity governance, compliance, and passwords. With SailPoint, they can seamlessly deploy users through automation, streamlining the user provisioning process and ensuring efficient onboarding and offboarding procedures. 

This was just a glimpse into how features can influence your decision-making process. So, looking into each tool's specific capabilities is crucial to reach a conclusive point. By thoroughly examining, you can ensure that you select the IAM solution that is most appropriate for your IT team's specific requirements.

Now, let's move on and compare Saviynt and SailPoint based on different parameters to help you decide which IAM platform will be the ideal choice.

Saviynt Vs. SailPoint: Comparison Based On Different Parameters

Below, we have differentiated both the IAM tools based on different parameters. With the help of these insights, you can choose which platform will help your IT teams effectively to streamline the identity access management process. 

1. Pros & Cons

• Pros of Saviynt 

Saviynt integrates seamlessly with corporate platforms such as Windows, Adobe, SAP, and Amazon Web Services. If you’re looking for a tool with several customization options, Saviynt is the right solution for your team. Furthermore, its implementation procedure is also quite simple, so your team can deploy this tool without any hassle or difficulty. 

Cons of Saviynt

The primary disadvantage of Saviynt is the dependency on their team for any modification or changes, necessitating frequent contact and requests. Additionally, it lacks a large user base, which poses challenges in obtaining timely solutions for product-related issues on certain occasions.

• Pros of SailPoint

On the other hand, SailPoint is quite popular for managing the identity lifecycle. Also, SailPoint can be a perfect fit for your team if you want to ensure compliance standards are met. Furthermore, it offers pre-configured functions that help your team streamline user identity and access management processes.

Cons of SailPoint 

SailPoint adapters are comparatively more complex to use, so it takes time for your IT teams to understand how it works, which interrupts the ongoing process. The access manager's report capabilities and dashboard provide a limited insightful overview.

2. Identity Access Management

Both Saviynt and SailPoint's end goal is to help your IT teams streamline identity access management; however, they follow a different approach to support them in achieving the required goal.

• Protect every identity 

Saviynt utilizes a single control panel for privileged access management across clouds, applications, and infrastructure so that your IT team can view risks in real-time and take immediate measures.  

Furthermore, it offers unique key capabilities such as role-appropriate access in which your team enforces access roles to reduce standing privilege and converged PAM+IGA, which allows you to make smarter decisions to mitigate governance-driven risk and privileged access data.

Additionally, it meets evolving regulations with ISO, SOC, and FedRAMP authorized platform. 

• Mitigate cyber risk with identity security 

Whereas, with SailPoint, your IT team can enhance security posture by securing every identity with access to your organization's SaaS app and its other assets. How does it do that? It automates access management to reduce back door access by former employees and unauthorized third parties.

Furthermore, it easily detects unauthorized access, allowing your team to take timely preventive measures. Additionally, it resolves policy violations such as separation of duty (SoD). 

It doesn't stop here; it helps your IT team gain complete visibility and control potential access risks by conducting regular audits. By doing so, your team can keep track of access transitions. 

3. Improves IT efficiency

• Saviynt enables your IT team to automatically grant your employees low-risk access to SaaS apps and data while promptly escalating higher-risk requests for review. 
  
  Further, it expedites the onboarding process by granting employees the right level of access within minutes. This helps your IT team increase their efficiency and saves productive time. Also, employees no longer have to wait for days to gain access; they can simply request app access, and they will get the approval right away; this helps enhance their overall employee experience.   

• Meanwhile, SailPoint enables your IT team to automate repetitive access tasks, such as app approvals and uses AI to detect potential threats. For example, it helps your team expedite onboarding by granting your employees access to SaaS apps and data they need on day one. Also, it automates access modification when your employees change roles, ensuring a seamless transition. 
  
  Furthermore, it offers self-service capabilities that empower your employees to reset passwords and request app access without burdening the IT team. This capability minimizes helpdesk calls and reduces the time spent approving/resolving tickets. 
  
  Apart from that, with SailPoint, your team can create a workflow without the need for coding. They can trigger actions to automate manual tasks like managing the user lifecycle. By doing so, your team can reduce the error, save productive time and improve their efficiency. 

4. Embrace Zero Trust

• With Saviynt, your IT team can easily integrate with varied endpoint security measures, identity-based micro-segmentation protocols, network security solutions, and more. By doing so, it improves the foundation of zero-trust intelligence. 
  
  Furthermore, Saviynt offers real-time analytics capabilities that enable your team to prevent data breaches effectively. With this cutting-edge technology, your team gains complete visibility into which employee has access to SaaS applications, enabling your IT team to detect and respond to any suspicious or unauthorized access activities

• On the other hand, SailPoint provides your IT team with a 360-degree view of all user types and their associated access privileges. By leveraging SailPoint, your team can effortlessly manage access throughout the user lifecycle, including provisioning, mid-lifecycle transitions, and deprovisioning, thanks to its automated granting, modification, and revocation capabilities.
  
  Furthermore, SailPoint's advanced capabilities allow your team to detect and prevent unauthorized access, proactively safeguard critical data. Enabling preventive measures ensures that potential security risks are identified and addressed promptly.
  
  In addition, SailPoint consolidates access to decision-making through a unified and reliable source of truth. This centralized approach streamlines the process, facilitating accurate and efficient access management.
  
  After closely comparing Saviyant and SailPoint, you might have better understood which tool will fit your IT team's needs perfectly. However, you should not restrict yourself to two tools. That's because there are other efficient platforms available in the market. One such platform is Zluri which offers excellent functionalities to streamline the identity access management process and can be a better alternative to Saviyant and SailPoint. 
  
  So, What is Zluri? What unique features does it offer? Here's a quick brief.

Seamlessly Manage SaaS Application Access With Zluri

If you're seeking a solution to tackle the access management challenges faced by your IT teams, Zluri presents itself as a compelling option. Why choose Zluri? It ensures that your IT admins can efficiently grant the right access levels to authorized employees for the required SaaS applications precisely when needed. With Zluri, your admins gain access to a centralized platform that effectively manages user identities and access policies, controls authentication and authorization procedures, and diligently tracks user behaviour and compliance.

To help you understand better, let's assume a situation a new employee joins your organization, so what Zluri does is it securely binds that employee's data with their digital identity. This integration ensures that during the provisioning process, your IT admins can seamlessly verify the employee's identity and grant them the right level of access permission to SaaS apps and data. 

By doing so, it not only streamlines the onboarding process but also serves as a protective measure against identity theft and safeguards your organization's critical SaaS app data from security breaches. 

Apart from that, Zluri offers advanced features such as single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA). These features empower your employees to authenticate themselves seamlessly using a single set of credentials and a single click. This streamlined authentication process eliminates the need for multiple passwords, reducing password fatigue and enhancing user experience. As a result, your employees can effortlessly access the necessary applications without any hassle, improving productivity and overall satisfaction.

But how to monitor the entire access management process? With Zluri, your team can keep track of each employee's access activities and permissions from a centralized dashboard. This includes comprehensive insights such as the applications the employee has access to, login and logout timestamps, level of permission allocated to them, and more. 

Further, this also enables your IT team to detect suspicious activities such as unauthorized access attempts, allowing them to take immediate actions or security measures to protect sensitive app data from data breaches or cyberattacks. 

Zluri is not restricted to this only; it enables your IT admins to grant, modify, and revoke access securely and efficiently. Further, by integrating with the HR system, it fetches the employee data and updates it in Zluri's dashboard. So that they can utilize this data to verify employees' identities upon onboarding, mid-lifecycle change, and offboarding.  

Additionally, it conducts periodic audits and generates reports such as reports on employee application activity, including login & logout events, group creation, and changes to user profiles. Also, it generates security event reports such as failed login attempts, suspicious login attempts, and changes to security policies which helps your IT team prevent security breaches. 

So why wait? Book a demo now and see for yourself how it enables your IT team to streamline identity access management.  

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