Saviynt Unveils Next-Gen ISPM: A New Era in Identity Security

Despite remarkable advancements in Identity Security, the frequency and magnitude of security incidents continues to escalate. Why? The rapid adoption of cloud technologies, the proliferation of SaaS applications, and the erosion of the traditional corporate perimeter have converged to shift the attack surface to a single vulnerable point: identity.  

Every identity, human or non-human, now represents a potential gateway to an organization’s most sensitive systems and data. Although the involvement of the human element in breaches remained roughly the same as last year according to a recent report, hovering around 60%, the percentage of breaches where a third party was involved has doubled.* The urgency to manage identities effectively – ensuring the right access to the right information at the right time – has never been greater. Yet organizations struggle with limited visibility, reactive processes, poor data hygiene, and an overreliance on technical resources, hindering their ability to manage identity security programs effectively.   

Saviynt’s Identity Security Posture Management 

Saviynt ISPM provides actionable insights into an organization’s identity and access posture, offering an intelligent starting point for prioritizing and remediating risks. Built on Zero Trust principles and powered by AI-driven insights, Saviynt’s ISPM is built with the following core tenets:  

Tenet #1 – Collecting identity data (identities, access, policies, configs, activity, events) from a wide variety of sources, including but not limited to: 

• IDPs, Directory Systems, Identity Security systems  

• SaaS platforms and IaaS systems  

• CMDBs, Cloud Security systems  

• ERPs, on-prem and hybrid systems  

This rich dataset allows the platform to build deep and intelligent insights by correlating data from multiple points.  

Tenet #2 – Enrich, Clean and Transform the data 

Given that identity data lacks quality, improving data quality is paramount before streaming into the data lake. This is achieved either using data cleaning or enrichment, or transforming the data.  

Tenet #3 – Empowering business users to harness the power of identity data 

After the data quality improvement, the data goes through processing and gets stored in various different formats and databases (Relational DB, OpenSearch, Graph DB and Vector DB). And further, this data is made available to end/business users via an natural language process (NLP) interface. 

Fig. 1 Saviynt’s ISPM architecture ingests data from multiple sources and then cleanses and enriches it so it can be easily consumed by end users.  

This architecture enables you to  

Discover and inventory all identities (human and non-human), access and resources 

As I alluded to above, Saviynt’s ISPM provides visibility into all identities, access, and assets, for a comprehensive and centralized identity data inventory. Having this compendious view is crucial for organizations to right start their identity strategies.  

Fig. 2 Saviynt’s ISPM discovers all identities to help identify risks. 

Centralizing this data eliminates blind spots across hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-premises systems to help pinpoint identity risks such as toxic access combinations, over-provisioned accounts, and risky privileged escalation paths. This deep correlation between identities, access, and resources, allows you to proactively eliminate risky access and prioritize remediation of identity and access risk to minimize windows of opportunity for bad actors. 

Fig. 3 Access paths let you quickly identify and stop problematic access sources such as SOD violations 

Enhance and improve data hygiene to boost effectiveness of governance controls 

Identity data is poor.  Fifty-five to 60% of accounts have missing owners, 17% - 33% have duplicate identities, and 70%+ of roles and entitlements do not have good, or any, descriptions.**  

Auto generation of role and entitlement descriptions ensures clarity and accuracy, streamlining processes and enabling precise access provisioning. Business owners can quickly understand who has access to what, improving certification accuracy and speed.  

Fig. 4 Gain posture insights across access, data and governance 

Boost the effectiveness of governance controls  

Baselining and measuring the effectiveness of governance controls is the only way to improve and optimize them. Unfortunately, it's not easy for organizations to baseline and improve the effectiveness of their governance controls.  

ISPM changes this.  

With its  advanced analytics, organizations not only understand what has happened (detective), why it has happened (diagnostic), predict if it will happen again (predictive), and prescribe policies (prescriptive) to prevent it from happening.  

For example, figure 4 below is a dashboard that allows organizations to gain deep insights into their campaign processes, reducing their campaign cycles, identifying possible rubber stampers, identify if trust scores are getting overruled, etc.  

Fig. 5 Quickly identify how your governance controls are performing and adjust as your organization evolves. 

Reduce your audit findings with improved preparedness and evidence collection 

In today’s regulatory landscape, maintaining continuous compliance is critical. Saviynt ISPM empowers you to kickstart your audit preparation with self-service capabilities and timeline views that highlight every change, including attributes, access request history, or access assignments.  Given identity data is siloed and fragmented, stitching this information into a single view has been game changing for organizations.  

By shortening the evidence collection process and proving continuous compliance, you can significantly cut audit-related costs. In the event of a breach or insider threat, having a centralized inventory of identity access information enhances forensic investigations and accelerates containment and remediation. 

Fig. 6 Complete historical timelines track every access change made to an identity to help prove continuous compliance.   

Empower your business users by unlocking the power of identity data 

Savi Copilot, Saviynt’s natural language processing interface, empowers business users and analysts to harness the power of identity data in the data lake. It allows them to swiftly create dashboards that drill down into identity data, easily identify problematic trends, and generate context-aware reports with rich data correlation. Business owners, auditors, or managers can make requests without needing to understand complex technical details, eliminating the need for business intelligence tools or technical resources to pull data, write queries, or develop APIs. This streamlined approach allows analysts to focus on preventative risk identification, ensuring a stronger security posture for your organization.  

Fig. 7 Enable non-technical users with the ability to quickly and easily create reports without the need for technical resources. 

Saviynt ISPM is not just a product; it’s a mindset shift and a huge step forward in identity security. Saviynt’s ISPM delivers unified visibility into identity and access risks, giving organizations a continuous pulse on their security. It empowers teams to validate the effectiveness of governance controls to proactively identify and remediate risks before they escalate into incidents. With actionable insights and instant access to data trends and anomalies, Saviynt’s ISPM becomes the cornerstone of a smarter, faster and more resilient identity security strategy. 

In addition to visiting our ISPM web page or signing up for a demo, there are several upcoming opportunities for you to learn more about Saviynt’s ISPM capabilities, including our ISPM Launch Webinar on May 15 that showcases GE HealthCare’s journey to proactive security with Saviynt ISPM. 

*2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report  

**Analysis of Saviynt customers