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Implementing SailPoint IdentityNow at a Global Pha…

Focal Point’s IAM services client is a leading global pharmaceutical company, with more than 20 years of experience and operating…
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Let’s Get Cracking: A Beginner’s Guide…

The Focal Point Attack & Penetration team performs many internal penetration tests that culminate in a compromise of Windows Active Directory domains and access to the password hashes of all domain users. Like many teams that provide pen testing services, we have a high-powered GPU-based password-cracking rig that …
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Data Quality Assessment and Data Warehouse Design …

A leading technology company engaged the Focal Point Data Analytics team to perform a data quality assessment for their 11…
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Leading Global Call Center Achieves Compliance wit…

One of the world’s leading global call centers, with contact centers in over 15 countries, support in roughly 30 languages,…
Blog

5 Things to Consider before Upgrading from SAP GRC…

SAP released a new version of Access Control in March 2018. It became generally available in September 2018, and in January 2019, support pack 3 was issued. In this release, SAP added some new functionality and improved some of the existing functionality. These updates include integration with cloud platforms, enhanced…
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Top Trends in Third-Party Risk Management for 2019

You’re a CEO. You’re standing in a room with the CEOs of your two top competitors. You look to your left, and you look to your right. Odds are, two of the three of you will suffer a security breach as a result of a third party. According to recent research from the Ponemon Institute, which surveyed more than 1,000 …
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Implementing SailPoint’s IdentityIQ for an Indus…

An industry leading energy transmission and distribution company, delivering electricity and natural gas to an expanding consumer base and serving approximately 302,000 electric customers and 80,000 natural gas customers throughout its service area, which covers one of the most populated geographical areas of the north…
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A CCPA Update: Preparing for Public Forums and the…

Since the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was signed in 2018, it has stirred up considerable controversy among tech companies, privacy advocates, and government officials. This regulation has fueled an increase in state laws and ushered in the possibility of a comprehensive federal privacy law. The road to imple…
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Data Privacy Day 2019: Privacy Trends to Watch in …

It's hard to believe it's already Data Privacy Day 2019. At this point last year, the data privacy world was in an all-consuming scramble to prepare for the GDPR. In some ways, we've come a long way since then - the GDPR is here, many companies have adjusted, and new laws and trends are beginning to edge into the spotl…