Mark McClain
- Founded Waveset Technologies in 2000, acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2003
- Co-founded SailPoint in 2005 and leads it as CEO
- Built identity governance into a distinct enterprise category
Bio
Mark McClain has founded two identity companies. Waveset Technologies, started in 2000, was an early identity-management pioneer and was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2003. He co-founded SailPoint in 2005 and serves as its CEO.
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Where their work shows up
Provisioning answered "give this person an account." Identity governance asks the harder question, whether they should still have it, and turns the answer into evidence an auditor will accept. Access certification campaigns, segregation-of-duties policy, and role mining all trace to the governance wave SailPoint led. See the best IGA platforms ranking and the identity security guides for how the practice runs today.
Related on Start with Identity
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- GlossarySegregation of Duties (SoD)
Ensuring no single user can complete a sensitive process unilaterally, for example, both creating and approving a vendor payment. SoD policies are encoded into
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