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Saviynt today announced a new integration with the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, now available on the CrowdStrike Marketplace. The bidirectional integration enables Saviynt to leverage CrowdStrike’s industry-leading endpoint, identity, and cloud telemetry to drive dynamic, risk-based access governance decisions, while CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM ingests Saviynt identity data to deliver unified visibility, faster investigations, and improved response across hybrid environments.

As organizations face growing complexity in managing human, non-human, and AI identities across hybrid and multicloud environments, attackers increasingly exploit compromised accounts and devices to reach critical systems and data. Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, the engine of the agentic SOC, combines native Falcon platform telemetry and third-party data with industry-leading threat intelligence and AI-driven automation to deliver unified visibility and rapid response across domains. By integrating CrowdStrike’s real-time telemetry with Saviynt’s governance capabilities, customers can respond faster to threats.

The Saviynt–CrowdStrike integration delivers identity-driven outcomes that enhance visibility and streamline response:

• Automated Remediation to Minimize Exposure and Accelerate Response – Suspends compromised accounts, revokes risky entitlements, and automates policy-driven workflows to accelerate containment and recovery without manual intervention.

Saviynt, the leader in AI-powered identity security solutions, today unveiled groundbreaking advancements to its platform that redefine how enterprises manage and secure identities in the AI era. These new enhancements address two of the most pressing challenges facing enterprises today: the inability to onboard and govern all applications; and the lack of secure management for all identities – human and non-human, including AI agents.

Saviynt’s new AI-driven capabilities address these long standing challenges by accelerating and simplifying application onboarding, enabling all apps to be managed from a single, unified identity security platform, and extending Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) to include every identity – human, non-human and AI agent – to help organizations strengthen their overall security posture.

Onboard All Applications with Agentic AI

Comprehensive application onboarding has long been one of the biggest roadblocks to realizing the full value of an identity security program. In fact, a Ponemon study found that 49% of organizations don’t even track how many disconnected apps they have – creating dangerous visibility gaps and expanding the attack surface.

Saviynt’s new Agentic AI Onboarding for Applications solves this challenge by harnessing agentic AI to accelerate and simplify the integration of both connected and disconnected applications across hybrid environments. The result is that every application – no matter where it resides – can now be seamlessly onboarded, governed, and secured under a single identity platform.

Secure All Identities — Human, Non-Human, and AI

As artificial intelligence transforms how enterprises operate, identity ecosystems are expanding at an unprecedented pace. Non-human identities and AI agents now outnumber human identities by more than 82 to 1, underscoring their explosive growth and the urgent need for stronger governance and control.

While AI agents are fueling major productivity gains, they also introduce a new class of identities that widens the attack surface. Most organizations lack the visibility and oversight to manage them effectively, leaving hidden risks across critical systems.

Saviynt is addressing this challenge head-on by extending its Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) capabilities to cover all identities – human, non-human, and AI. These enhancements empower enterprises to confidently adopt AI while maintaining full visibility, governance, and compliance.

New capabilities include:

• Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) for AI Agents: Provides comprehensive visibility, governance, and audit readiness for AI agents and their core components – such as MCP servers and tools – through simplified discovery, prioritized risk insights, and integrated access maps enriched with signals from leading security solutions like CrowdStrike.
• ISPM for Non-Human Identities (NHI): Enhanced NHI capabilities now include a unified inventory for all NHIs, their access policies, and detected violations, with support for one-click remediation.

Built for an AI-Driven Future

Together, these AI-driven capabilities enable unified identity security across all environments, simplifying application onboarding and extending protection to every identity.

Saviynt’s AI-powered platform seamlessly integrates identity governance, application governance, privileged access management, and security posture management for all identities. With the addition of AI-native capabilities, organizations can proactively reduce risk, accelerate decision-making, and enhance operational agility.

By unifying human and non-human identity security under a single platform, Saviynt empowers enterprises to achieve true Zero Trust at scale and ensure continuous compliance in today’s AI-driven world.

For more information on Saviynt’s AI-powered identity security platform, read the new blog. Saviynt will also showcase these new capabilities during its 2025 UNLOCK Roadshow, taking place in six cities around the world over the next two months.

 Saviynt, a leader in AI-powered identity security solutions, today announced the launch of its global UNLOCK Tour: Unlock Possibility. Govern Every Identity. Accelerate with AI. This exclusive 2025 event series will explore how organizations are approaching the AI era – spotlighting AI’s incredible potential alongside the critical need to secure and govern it. Attendees will gain actionable blueprints from global industry leaders and practitioners on how intelligent identity security can help enterprises achieve more than they ever thought possible.

The tour will feature a session led by Amazon Web Services (AWS) titled “Leveraging AI to Unlock Productivity and Elevate Security of Cloud Workloads.” In collaboration with Saviynt, AWS will showcase how organizations can harness the power of AI to achieve new levels of security, operational efficiency, and innovation in the intelligence age.

At each UNLOCK event, attendees will:

• Hear from Industry Leaders and Analysts – Insights from global security experts, including keynote perspectives from recognized veterans and analysts such as Martin Kuppinger, Principal Analyst and Co-Founder of KuppingerCole.
  Explore AI’s Promise and Risks – Understand how AI is reshaping the enterprise, and why securing and governing it is essential to success.
  Experience Real-World Strategies – Learn from customer transformation stories and live demos of AI-powered identity security capabilities in action.
  Gain Practical Blueprints – Frameworks for streamlining compliance, consolidating tools, and improving efficiency.
  Connect with Peers and Innovators – Build relationships through panels, roundtables, networking, and executive 1:1s, with Saviynt executives including CEO Sachin Nayyar, President Paul Zolfaghari, Chief Product & Strategy Officer Jeff Margolies, COO Shankar Ganapathy, Chief Product Officer Vibhuti Sinha, SVP of Strategy Henrique Teixeira, Field CTO David Lee, and Field CIO Simon Gooch.

2025 UNLOCK Tour Dates:

• Singapore, October 3 (Invite Only)
• New York City, October 14
• Frankfurt, October 21
• London, October 23
• Sydney, October 28
• Gothenburg, October 28
• Toronto, November 4
• Paris, November 6
• Dallas, December 11

Saviynt’s UNLOCK Global Tour is complimentary for prospects, customers, and partners. To learn more about the event and register for a city near you, please visit https://saviynt.com/unlock-roadshow.

 Saviynt today announced the hiring of Kevin Spurway as Chief Marketing Officer. Spurway brings more than 20 years of senior-level marketing leadership in enterprise SaaS and software including as CMO for private, pre-IPO, and public U.S. companies. He joins Saviynt from Feedzai, an AI-native fraud and financial crime prevention platform.

Prior to Feedzai, Spurway was CMO at Similarweb, a SaaS market intelligence company that he joined pre-IPO and helped lead into the U.S. public markets in 2021. Before Similarweb, he spent six years as CMO of low-code application development and process automation company Appian, where he helped drive sustained high growth, and was instrumental in the company’s success as the top performing software IPO of 2017. He previously held senior marketing and corporate development positions at PTC and MicroStrategy. Spurway received his B.A. from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

To learn more about Saviynt, please visit the website.

Saviynt has announced that LIXIL Corporation has chosen Saviynt’s Identity Cloud to enhance its global identity management system that now provides more than 70,000 identities with improved user experience, compliance readiness, and centralized visibility across the organization.

With a workforce of more than 53,000 employees, LIXIL turned to Saviynt for the flexibility to modernize its legacy processes without disrupting operations. The cloud-native solution met the company’s global needs, including compliance with GDPR data residency requirements and support for Japanese-language user interfaces. LIXIL’s implementation included successful collaboration with Saviynt Expert Services, ensuring a smooth multi-phase deployment.

Saviynt provides LIXIL the following benefits from its Identity Cloud:

• Improved User Experience: Streamlined employee onboarding/offboarding and self-service provisioning for over 70,000 internal and third-party users. 
• Granular Identity Visibility: Centralized and granular visibility across a diverse and expanding application ecosystem. 
• Proactive Audit Readiness: Automation, standardized controls, and enhanced reporting capabilities make audits faster and easier. 
• Global Compliance and Security: Simplified governance processes and improved reporting mitigate compliance and cybersecurity risks. 
• Efficient Third-Party Access Governance: Seamless integration of third-party access governance (TPAG) within a single platform, enabling easy extension of capabilities to a global network of vendors and contractors. 

With Saviynt’s support, LIXIL is now well-positioned to continue its cloud modernization journey. Looking ahead, LIXIL plans to implement Saviynt’s privileged access management (PAM) solution and continue to onboard additional applications, expanding the scope of its identity governance initiatives.

To learn more about LIXIL’s implementation with Saviynt, please visit the website. 

Saviynt today announced major global expansion initiatives, including the opening of new regional offices in Singapore and London, the launch of dedicated customer support operations in Europe, and plans for a significantly expanded office in India. These investments mark a new phase in Saviynt’s rapid global growth and reinforce its position as the identity authority for enterprises worldwide.

Building on a record-breaking 2024 and continued demand for its AI-based Identity Cloud platform, Saviynt is deepening its presence in key markets across Asia-Pacific (APJ) and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) regions. As identity security becomes the foundation of digital transformation and security, Saviynt’s scalable, intelligent, and converged platform is increasingly being chosen by enterprises to modernize and secure their identity infrastructure.

Saviynt’s expanded Singapore office will serve as a regional hub for APJ, providing a base for customer success, solution delivery, and partner enablement. With accelerating digital adoption in the region and increasing regulatory focus on identity governance, this expansion will ensure customers receive tailored, high-impact support.

In Europe and the Middle East, Saviynt has significantly expanded its regional footprint to five core hubs serving customers in over 15 countries. Along with a newly launched customer operations center in Poland, a regional office in London, and new leadership in Amsterdam and Germany, the company has expanded across Iberia, and is actively hiring leadership in Dubai to support its growing Middle East customer base. These hubs are designed to enhance regional delivery, strengthen partner collaboration, and offer deeper identity expertise across diverse regulatory and business environments.

In India, Saviynt is preparing to unveil a new office location to support its growing presence in the region, not only through engineering, product, and support functions, but also by expanding its go-to-market teams. With India playing a critical role in both global operations and regional growth, this move reflects Saviynt’s long-term commitment to investing in world-class talent, customer engagement, and market development.

These expansions follow a period of significant customer wins, industry recognition, and product innovation for Saviynt. The company was recently named a 2024 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Identity Governance and Administration for the fourth consecutive year and continues to displace legacy providers with its converged, AI-driven identity platform.

For more information about Saviynt’s Identity Cloud, please visit the website. 

Saviynt announced today that it has signed a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help organizations create a scalable and secure foundation for digital transformation through AI-driven identity security. The strategic collaboration will focus on delivering Saviynt’s next-generation Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) capabilities through deeper integration with AWS generative AI services, Amazon Q Business.

As an identity security vendor that is natively embedded as a Data Accessor within Amazon Q index, Saviynt will enable enterprises to harness the power of real-time identity data and insights directly within AWS. The collaboration includes dedicated AWS investments in co-selling, marketing, and product innovation – positioning Saviynt to deliver AI-driven identity governance at scale through the Amazon Q ecosystem.

By integrating with Amazon Q index as a native Data Accessor, Saviynt will extend its powerful analytics and governance capabilities into the Amazon Q experience. Enterprise customers will gain:

• Faster Compliance and Audit Reviews: Instantly surface access assignment events, approval tickets, and policy documentation – streamlining audits and accelerating compliance reviews.
• Simplified Investigations: Eliminate manual searches across disparate systems like ServiceNow, Jira, GDrive, or SharePoint. Analysts get a unified view of identity events and related tickets in real time.
• More Accurate Access Decisions: Easily validate user access against internal policies, compliance rules, and documented approvals – ensuring decisions are both fast and aligned with governance standards.
• Greater Operational Efficiency: Reduce response times and improve team productivity with immediate access to historical identity data and governance context.

These capabilities are especially valuable for regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing – where compliance, audit readiness, and least-privilege access are business-critical.

To learn more, please visit the website.

Saviynt, a leading provider of identity security solutions, today announced the availability of Saviynt MCP Server in the new AI Agents and Tools category of AWS Marketplace. Customers can now use AWS Marketplace to easily discover, buy, and deploy AI agents solutions, including Saviynt MCP Server using their AWS accounts, accelerating AI agent and agentic workflow development.

Saviynt MCP Server helps organizations extend the capabilities of Saviynt Identity Cloud by empowering customers to turn natural language prompts into precise identity actions—such as retrieving and analyzing access patterns, evaluating cross-application access, and initiating governance workflows including access approvals and revocations.

Saviynt MCP Server delivers essential capabilities including unified identity visibility that instantly visualizes access across cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments. With context-rich governance powered by MCP-based queries, organizations can link access to policies, approvals, and usage. Its AI-ready integration streamlines automation and accelerates compliance through seamless workflow orchestration.

With the availability of AI Agents and Tools in AWS Marketplace, customers can significantly accelerate their procurement process to drive AI innovation, reducing the time needed for vendor evaluations and complex negotiations. With centralized purchasing using AWS accounts, customers maintain visibility and control over licensing, payments, and access through AWS.

Available as a SaaS solution, Saviynt MCP Server leverages Model Context Protocol (MCP) to power intelligent agent interactions—bringing full-spectrum access visibility and automated governance to the forefront of AI-powered enterprises.

To learn more about Saviynt MCP Server in AWS Marketplace, visit the website. To learn more about the new AI Agents and Tools category in AWS Marketplace, visit https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/solutions/ai-agents-and-tools/.

Saviynt today announced the appointment of Steve Blacklock as its Senior Vice President of Global Partners and Channel Chief. As Saviynt continues to invest as a partner first company, Blacklock will lead all aspects of Saviynt’s global partner organization, deepening strategic alliances, driving GTM through the partner and Saviynt sales teams, and spearheading development of new strategic partnerships that will drive transformational growth. 

Blacklock brings more than 30 years of experience in global alliances and business development across the technology sector, with a proven track record of forging high-impact partnerships that drive transformational outcomes. He joins Saviynt from Palo Alto Networks, where he served as Vice President of North American Partner Sales. During his tenure, he led go-to-market initiatives across GSIs, MSSPs, cloud providers, and value-added resellers, helping expand the company’s footprint through a robust partner ecosystem.

Prior to Palo Alto Networks, Blacklock held several executive leadership roles, including Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Icertis, where he led partnerships with Microsoft and SAP; Vice President of Global Strategic Alliances at Citrix, where he was pivotal in the company’s shift to cloud services and subscription models; and various senior roles at Cisco, including managing the billion-dollar HP partnership and as a part of the executive team that launched the VCE joint venture with EMC and VMware. Blacklock holds a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and currently resides in Pleasanton, California.

Saviynt has announced that it now protects all forms of organizational identities, including Non-Human Identities (NHI). The company has expanded its identity security cloud platform to protect NHIs such as workloads, bots, and credentials. This is in addition to the existing capability of supporting NHI service accounts. The announcement was made just before Identiverse 2025, set for June 3-6 in Las Vegas, where Saviynt executives will lead a workshop on NHI.

As the authority in identity security, Saviynt will spotlight its latest innovations in NHI protection – integrated within its converged platform, The Identity Cloud. Attendees can visit booth #638 to see firsthand how Saviynt is redefining enterprise security by delivering converged, scalable protection through a single pane of glass for all digital identities – human and non-human – at scale.

As organizations embrace automation, AI, and cloud-native development, NHIs now vastly outnumber human users – by as much as 100:1 in DevOps environments. Saviynt’s Identity Cloud delivers full visibility, posture management, and actionable recommendations for all identities, enabling enterprises to discover and secure every NHI, including workloads, bots, and credentials. The platform extends its best-in-class controls to NHIs, offering deep insight into activity history, usage patterns, and prioritized risk insights – all without the need for additional tools or complex configurations.

Saviynt’s NHI capabilities are purpose-built to simplify and secure the most complex identity environments, helping organizations eliminate blind spots across cloud and hybrid ecosystems. The platform enables teams to:

• Discover all non-human identities and their access in a unified view: Get complete, real-time inventory of your non-human identity landscape.
• Understand security posture of non-human identities with deep analysis: Granular analysis of non-human identity activity and relationships to surface prioritized identity security and compliance issues.
• Visualize non-human identity activity with timeline view: Surfaces access events, as well as lifecycle changes, to enable faster response and ensure compliance.

The growing demand for a converged, intelligent identity security platform has never been more urgent. With Agentic AI accelerating fast, organizations need a modern identity security foundation with the depth and flexibility to govern the right access for every identity — human or machine, known or emerging. Saviynt is at the forefront of delivering on that need. This leadership is reflected in the company’s prominent presence at Identiverse, where five of Saviynt’s top executives will share their expertise on the most pressing identity challenges and innovations, including how to drive the next wave of innovation to meet the significant identity challenges introduced by Agentic AI. Attendees can attend these expert-led sessions featuring Saviynt executives and customers:

Non-Human Identity Workshop
Ehud Amiri, vice president of product management and Henrique Teixeira, senior vice president of strategy | 9:00 a.m – 12:00 p.m. PT on June 3 | Mandalay Bay H

Amiri and Teixeira will lead a deep-dive workshop exploring the critical importance of securing NHIs, such as workloads, bots, AI agents, and secrets. Participants will learn about the growing risks NHIs pose to enterprises, especially in light of generative AI developments, and gain practical insights on how to detect, manage, and remediate these risks using Saviynt’s NHI Maturity Model and risk-based security approaches.

GE Healthcare’s Journey to Proactive Identity Security
Vibhuti Sinha, chief product officer, with GE Healthcare’s Joey Tyler| 2:35 – 3:00 p.m. PT on June 4 | Breakers J

Sinha and Tyler share GE Healthcare’s transformative approach to Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM). This session highlights how moving from reactive to proactive identity security significantly reduces risks and streamlines compliance efforts. Attendees will gain valuable insights into the practical application of ISPM and the benefits realized by one of the world’s largest healthcare providers.

B2B-IAM Smackdown: Defending the Future of Partner Identity
Jeff Margolies, chief product and strategy officer | 10:30 – 11:20 a.m. PT on June 5

Margolies presents a forward-looking session on partner identity security, a critical and often overlooked dimension of enterprise identity management. This talk explores emerging threats in B2B identity, challenges in securing third-party access, and how enterprises can proactively defend their partner ecosystems using Saviynt’s converged identity platform.

Identity: The Superhero No One Invited to the Boardroom
David Lee, field chief technology officer | 4:00 – 4:25 p.m. PT on June 5 | Mandalay Bay D

Lee offers a candid look at why Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the foundational technology “glue” holding modern enterprises together—yet often remains undervalued. He discusses the “Identity Plot Twist” driven by AI, decentralized identity models, and machine identities, and makes a compelling case for elevating IAM’s role and budget in enterprise security strategies.

After a full day of thought leadership and innovation, join Saviynt at the IDMWorks Identity Happy Hour on Wednesday, June 4, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. PT at Flanker Kitchen and Sports Bar in Mandalay Bay. Unwind with craft cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, playoff hockey, and great conversation with identity experts and peers from across the industry.

To learn more about Saviynt’s presence at Identiverse, please visit the website and blog.