SailPoint expands Identity University to tackle cybersecurity skills gap
Crest Advisory to assess value for money of Coracle’ s Osprey-VLE across UK prisons
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SailPoint expands Identity University to tackle cybersecurity skills gap
F irst unveiled in 2017 and opened to the public in 2023,
Identity University enables security professionals to follow role-based training paths, track their progress and earn certifications and badges to demonstrate expertise and advance their careers. With its latest evolution, SailPoint is reinforcing its commitment to addressing the cybersecurity skills shortage, supporting the talent market and helping partners and customers train new employees.
Identity University now includes hands-on labs offering practical experience in a live-tenant environment. These cover essential setup and administration topics, along with extensibility capabilities for the SailPoint Identity Security Cloud. New training offerings target administrators and engineers, helping learners keep pace with the fast-evolving identity security landscape.
Chief Customer Officer at SailPoint.“ Since introducing our entry-level Identity Security Leader credential last year, we’ ve quadrupled the number of people with a SailPoint certification – and expect to train 100,000 new identity security professionals over the next three years.”
The update also brings an intuitive catalogue, streamlined navigation, simplified e-commerce and a Training Administrator Access feature, allowing customers and partners to manage enterprise training more effectively.
Administrators can learn to build an access model in Identity Security Cloud and perform key troubleshooting activities, while engineers can configure and extend identity security connectors and sit advanced expert-level exams.
“ By expanding our industry-leading learning platform, SailPoint remains committed to providing access to critical training and certification resources,” said Meredith Blanchar,
Crest Advisory to assess value for money of Coracle’ s Osprey-VLE across UK prisons
C rest Advisory has been commissioned by Coracle to evidence the value for money of its Osprey-VLE platform in the prison sector. The report explores the extent to which Coracle represents value for money and assesses its contribution to outcomes for prisoners, prison staff and the wider public, with a primary focus on improving access to prison education and rehabilitation. and non-monetisable benefits and presents a logic model showing how inputs and activities lead to specific outcomes for prisoners, prisons and society. Methods align with HM Treasury’ s Magenta Book( 2024) and Green Book( 2022), using robust quasi-experimental approaches – generalised synthetic control and staggered difference-in-difference – to estimate impact.
A rapid evidence review and analysis of publicly available data underpin the work, informed by Coracle management information on device deployment and prison onboarding dates. The review sets out how outcomes link to monetisable
James Tweed, Founder of Coracle Online
Findings indicate that onboarding with Coracle is associated with an estimated reduction of 1.59 assaults per prison per month( around 10 %), a reduction of 0.15 serious assaults per month and – in male prisons – an estimated 1.79 fewer self-harm incidents per month. At the regional level, Coracle deployment is associated with a statistically significant increase in post-custody employment: + 2.05 percentage points at six weeks and + 3.11 percentage points at six months per quarter.
Using government unit costs and applying optimism-bias corrections, the estimated annual benefit of deploying Coracle across 96 prisons is £ 35.6 million. On an assumed annual contract value of £ 2.25 million, this equates to a benefit-cost ratio of 15.8 – around £ 16 saved for every £ 1 spent.
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