Case Study: a leading insurance and financial services provider streamlines SOX compliance with SailPoint

Streamlining User Access Reviews for More Effective, Sustainable Compliance

A leading insurance and financial service provider faced significant challenges in demonstrating Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance. Their manual processes for user access reviews were inefficient and error-prone, resulting in a preliminary audit that found only 70% of user entitlement data was accurate. The company's complex IT infrastructure, which included mainframe, IBM AS/400, and homegrown applications, made achieving compliance a major hurdle. To address this, they selected SailPoint's identity governance solution for automated access control, reporting, and audit.

SailPoint implemented a solution that automated the access review and certification process for 9,000 users, consolidating 40,000 user accounts into a centralized repository. The deployment was completed for 14 key applications in just 21 days. As a result, the time required for access certifications was reduced from months to days, and the accuracy of user data was dramatically increased. SailPoint's technology provided a consolidated view of user entitlements, improved decision-making, and eliminated error-prone manual processes, giving the company a sustainable and effective compliance framework.