Why are organisations moving from SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQ) to Identity Security Cloud (ISC)?
The identity security landscape is undergoing a major shift. Along with benefits of moving to the cloud like lower maintenance overhead and easier upgrades, organisations are looking for solutions that offer scalability, continuous innovation, and advanced security capabilities. SailPoint’s Identity Security Cloud (ISC) introduces features that go beyond what IdentityIQ (IIQ) offers, including:
- AI driven identity governance and risk insights for smarter decision making
- Predictive access modelling to proactively manage entitlements
- Faster application onboarding to accelerate integration and reduce manual effort
- Identity graph technology for deep visibility into identity relationships and risk
- Non-human identity management for service accounts, bots, machine and agentic identities
These capabilities make ISC a compelling choice for organisations seeking agility, resilience, and future proof identity programs.
Author:
Deepika Reddy
Principal Consultant at CyberIAM
Our 4 Step Migration Approach
Migrating from IIQ to ISC is not a simple lift and shift. It is an opportunity to modernise processes, standardise configurations, and uplift your identity program. Here is how we do it:
1. Assessment and Discovery
We start by understanding:
- Your current IIQ implementation, including customisations, integrations, and dependencies
- Challenges and pain points (e.g. upgrade complexity, performance issues)
- Migration drivers - cost optimisation, compliance or modernisation
2. Strategy and Planning
- Migration objectives: What success looks like for your organisation
- Migration plan: Timelines, budget, resource allocation and early stakeholder alignment
- Migration approach:
- We recommend a phased migration approach with incremental adoption, with the number of phases and release timelines based on the complexity of the IIQ environment, business goals, and expected outcomes
- Our typical approach involves migrating configurations in stages while enabling new ISC features, with IIQ and ISC running in parallel for a short period
- This approach minimises risk and allows for incremental adoption
3. Execution and Monitoring
Execution involves:
- Integration setup: Connecting applications and data sources, aggregating identities and access
- Phased configuration migration: We begin by migrating components that are straightforward to move such as roles, workgroups, policies, connector rules etc. Next, we address more complex elements like custom scripts, advanced rules, and workflows. During this process, we also redesign and standardise configurations and processes wherever feasible and required to align with cloud principles and ISC best practices
- Parallel validation and advanced feature enablement: Ensuring both systems run smoothly during transition, early enablement of advanced ISC features that are quick wins
- Monitoring: Continuous tracking of performance and error handling
4. Continuous Improvement
Post migration, we:
- Optimise processes for efficiency and compliance
- Establish feedback loops for ongoing enhancements
Why This Approach Works
- Risk mitigation: Parallel runs reduce disruption
- Future proofing: Embracing ISC’s modern capabilities
- Standardisation and uplift: Moving beyond legacy complexit
- Early stakeholder alignment: Ensuring cross functional dependencies are addressed and business critical processes are validated
- Continuous optimisation: Post migration advisory and stakeholder involvement in feedback loops drive long term success and ongoing improvements
How We Can Help
Migrating from IIQ to ISC can be complex, especially for highly customised environments. We at CyberIAM make it successful by combining:
- Deep expertise in both platforms
- A structured, phased migration framework that minimises risk
We also work seamlessly with SailPoint’s assessment and migration offerings, creating cohesive and efficient transition. Our approach focuses on process redesign and standardisation to align with ISC best practices.
Post migration, we provide ongoing advisory and optimisation to help you unlock advanced ISC capabilities like AI driven governance, automated onboarding, and identity graph analytics.
Our team is highly certified in SailPoint technologies, ensuring best in class delivery and alignment with SailPoint standards.
Ready to Modernise Your Identity Program?
If you are considering migrating from IIQ to ISC, now is the time to future proof your identity security strategy.
Contact us today to learn how our proven approach can help you achieve a seamless, risk-free migration while unlocking ISC’s full potential.
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