Things we believe that might get us uninvited from conferences
Most companies paying $15/user/mo for Okta could get 80% of the functionality from Entra ID P1 they're already paying for in M365 E3. But Okta's docs are better, so here we are.
Average deployment: 6-12 months. Average first marriage: 8 years. At least SailPoint has an exit strategy. (It's called Saviynt.)
If your compliance workflow is "take screenshot, upload to Vanta, repeat" — you don't have continuous compliance. You have a scrapbook.
17 NHIs for every human. Your 500-person company has 8,500 service accounts, API keys, and bot tokens. You govern maybe 50 of them. Sleep well.
Zilla → CyberArk. Veza → ServiceNow. Authomize → Delinea. If your entire category gets absorbed as a feature, it wasn't a category.
Access requests happen in Slack. Approvals happen in Slack. Onboarding happens in Slack. Your $15/user IdP is a backup dancer.
All that consolidation and the fundamental problem remains: someone quits on Friday, their access lives until Monday. If you're lucky.
$5/user/mo × 100 users = $500/mo. Your engineering team's Starbucks habit costs more. And coffee doesn't prevent breaches. (Although it does prevent morning incidents.)
We counted. 38 out of 45 mention AI on their homepage. The number that actually use it in their core product loop? Maybe 8.
The $200K/yr IGA platform gathering dust is less secure than the $5/user/mo tool your IT admin actually logs into. Adoption > features. Every time.
Governance-first IAM. Agentic AI. From $5/user/mo.
Or free for teams under 20.