Cloud vs On-Prem
FAM
Approach to Engineering
Tech Terms and Acronyms
The 2024 Big 5
100

Our product that is deployed into a customer-managed Java based application servers

What is IdentityIQ?

100

Information that doesn't have a predefined data model or isn't organized in a specific, easily identifiable format.

What is unstructured data?

100

The year we pioneered identity governance 

What happened in 2007?

100

The naming convention for our fun and common interest discussions in slack

What is #pnc?

200

100+ per week

How many ISC software releases occur per week?

200

GDPR, PII, PCI, Confidential

What are some policies that govern data classifications?

200
Our current Saas solution

What is ISC?

200

NERM

What is acronym for Non-employee risk management?

300

A virtual machine that runs within a customer's environment, enabling secure communication between cloud services and on-premises resources without the need for complex firewall configurations.

What is a virtual appliance?

300

a feature that helps identify and catalog business resources across your organization's file systems.

What is business resource crawler?

300

Delivery Commitments and Team commitments

How do we deliver on our integrity value in the engineering org?

300

The way we align team efforts with company goals, ensure focus, and drive results.

What is OKRs (objective and key results?

300

Apply traditional identity governance and administration to non-human identities such as service accounts

What is our product initiative around machine identity security (non-human identities)?

400

The architecture that enables SailPoint to serve multiple customers on a shared infrastructure while keeping their data and configurations isolated

What is multi-tenant microservice architecture?

400

AD, LDAP, Excel, Flat file etc

What are the identity collector data sources?

400

The company we acquired to add the Access Risk Management feature to our product

What is ERP Maestro?

400

FAM and DAS

One manages files and unstructured data on the cloud and the other on-prem

400

This identity governance feature drastically reduces the time and effort spent in onboarding by automating SaaS application discovery, onboarding processes, and the generation of access policies.

What is Automated Applications Onboarding?

500

Small self-contained unit that handles a specific aspect of the platform's functionality, such as user provisioning, access certification, or policy management.

What are micro-services?

500

A messaging broker that is used in the File Access Manager (FAM) architecture to facilitate communication between different components of the system.

What is Rabbit MQ? 

500

A technique we use in our small micro fix engineering approach to enable or disable specific features of an application without deploying new code.

What are feature flags?

500

SOD

What is the acronym for Seperations of Duties

500

This concept redefines traditional PAM by broadening the scope to include all identities—whether employees, machines, or service accounts—and measures privilege by risk.

What is Privilege Management?

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