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Compliance system warns of risky users who could cause harm on a network.

Red Herring, January 29, 2007, By Michael Cohn

SailPoint Technologies introduced a system Monday that makes it easier for network administrators to identify risky users and activities on a network so companies can avoid exposing information to the wrong people.

The Austin, Texas-based company uses data mining and analytics to determine which users on a network have access to information they shouldn�t be able to see. SailPoint�s �identity intelligence� system, Compliance IQ, can also find out if network users are trying to doing anything with the data that poses a threat to a company�s regulatory compliance responsibilities.

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