Identity security vendor SailPoint has inked a partnership with global technology company HCLTech to provide modern identity security solutions built for the scale, speed and complexity of AI-enabled enterprise environments. This shows how identity security has become mission-critical for the modern enterprise. Once a back-office control, identity has now transformed into a strategic platform that fuels agility, efficiency, and AI enablement – all grounded in security – helping enterprises unlock new avenues for growth.
The partnership brings together SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, delivered with SailPoint’s AI‑driven identity platform, SailPoint Atlas, with HCLTech’s deep capabilities and experience helping large organizations manage identity at scale. The combination of HCLTech’s global cybersecurity practice with SailPoint’s AI‑powered identity risk analytics also enables enterprises to stay ahead of identity challenges by automating lifecycle access controls, continuously monitoring access risk and enforcing policy across hybrid, multicloud and AI ecosystems. HCLTech’s MiDaaS (Managed Identity-as-a-Service) framework also offers lifecycle identity and access governance woven into managed service delivery.
“In the AI era, identities, including agents, are the new perimeter and must be intelligently governed and secured,” said Matt Mills, President of SailPoint. “Our partnership with HCLTech enables more customers to build identity security programs at scale to secure AI agents and other identities – programs that are policy‑driven, risk‑aware, and resilient to fast‑moving digital threats.”
SailPoint says that they believe they pioneered the identity-centric approach to enterprise security, as recognized by independent research firms including Gartner, Forrester, and KuppingerCole. An extensive partner ecosystem of skilled professionals delivers their solutions in over 50 countries. The company says that this provides the most complete identity security solution to their customers.
“A zero-trust operating model requires an identity-first approach, which in turn can also serve as a strong digital foundation for an AI-powered future,” said Jagadeshwar Gattu, President, Digital Foundation Services at HCLTech. “By embedding SailPoint Atlas into our unified IAM and managed services ecosystem, we empower enterprises to manage identity risk proactively and with confidence.” Gattu also noted that HCLTech invests in partner relationships that go beyond technology to deliver outcomes, simplify customer environments, and embed long-term program value.
Organizations can benefit from the combined power of this alliance in three major ways.
First comes accelerated identity transformation at scale. Companies can move from outdated, siloed systems to a modern identity platform backed by HCLTech’s global delivery teams, certified identity consultants and proven delivery methods.
Second is continuous risk‑aware governance: With real-time insights from Atlas and hands-on governance support from HCLTech, businesses can stay ahead of access risks and help ensure that policy enforcement, access certification and anomalous access detection remain tightly governed across dynamic environments.
Finally comes resilience in the age of AI. As enterprises deploy GenAI applications and agents, identity becomes mission-critical infrastructure. This strategic alliance ensures organizations have zero-trust aligned identity controls to confidently govern access in real‑time.
SailPoint’s 2025 Horizons of Identity Report reveals identity security is the highest-ROI security investment. In four years of Horizons research, several themes stand out. The bar for maturity keeps rising – progressing from manual IAM to automation, then to machine identity management, and now to AI agent lifecycle governance and adaptive trust. Identity types have expanded as well, from primarily human users and contractors in 2022, to machine identities in 2024, and today’s surge of AI agents.
“We have a significant opportunity in front of us, as CIOs and CISOs worldwide increasingly recognize how essential it is to build their enterprise security program from a foundation centred on identity first,” Mills said.
“As organizations navigate a rapidly changing landscape, the report indicates that identity has become the top ROI generator in the security stack—helping enterprises cut costs, reduce risk, and accelerate growth,” Mills concluded. “Today, identity is the central control point where policies are enforced, critical decisions are made, and security operations converge. Its future is tightly connected to security and AI-driven data governance, enabling enterprises to manage every identity—human, machine or AI agent—across the enterprise. With advances in AI, data management, and threat detection, modern identity security now delivers the unified visibility, expanded governance, and automated resilience organizations need.”