Saviynt and Amazon Q Index: Driving Better Identity Governance

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As organizations accelerate adoption of cloud applications and AI-powered tools, comprehensive visibility into identities, access, and entitlements has never been more critical. Security teams need answers to fundamental questions: Who has access to what? Are permissions appropriate? Where are risks hiding in an increasingly complex application landscape?

Saviynt’s integration with Amazon Q Index directly addresses these challenges, enabling enterprise security teams to achieve unified identity visibility without the complexity of building multiple individual integrations.

What is Amazon Q Index?

Amazon Q Index is a centralized, intelligent repository that aggregates and indexes SaaS applications such as collaboration platforms, project management tools, CRMs, and file storage systems. Organizations connect their critical applications to the index, creating a unified dataset that respects user-level permissions and preserves existing security controls.

Unified Identity Intelligence for Comprehensive Coverage

By combining Amazon Q Index’s extensive application coverage with Saviynt ISPM’s advanced analytics, organizations gain unprecedented insight into identity security across the enterprise.

• Application Coverage: Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Jira, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Slack, Confluence, GitHub, Box, Dropbox, and more.
• Continuous Sync: Amazon Q Index continuously updates access and entitlement data.
• Immediate Visibility: Saviynt ISPM taps into this centralized repository to provide instant identity security coverage—without building point-to-point integrations for each application.

Key Benefits:

1. Reduce Investigation Effort: Unified view of identity events and related tickets eliminates manual searches across systems.
2. Improve Decision-Making Accuracy: Verify user access against internal guidelines, compliance rules, and approvals.
3. Increase Operational Efficiency: Immediate access to historical context and documentation accelerates response times.
4. Accelerate Compliance & Audits: Quickly retrieve evidence, approvals, and policies from integrated systems.

Real-World Impact: Jira Integration

Consider Jira, a widely used project management and issue tracking platform. Jira often contains sensitive intellectual property, development initiatives, and customer support data.

• Traditional access investigations require searching emails, tickets, and multiple systems to understand why access was granted or changed.
• Saviynt ISPM, using Amazon Q Index, correlates Jira ticket data with identity events to show the business justification behind access changes.
• Analysts can instantly verify if temporary access was properly granted and revoked, maintaining complete audit trails without switching systems.

Example Dashboard:

• Timeline view of “Access Added” and “Access Removed” activities
• Related Jira tickets, approvals, and access requests visible in one panel
• Instant context allows faster, more accurate decision-making

Why Visibility is Critical for Identity Security

Identity is the primary attack surface in modern enterprises. Attackers often exploit over-privileged accounts, orphaned access, or misconfigured permissions, rather than breaching network perimeters.

Traditional identity governance struggles to scale:

• Point-to-point integrations are costly and slow
• Switching consoles loses context and slows investigations
• Shadow IT and unmanaged apps create blind spots

The Saviynt–Amazon Q Index integration eliminates these gaps, providing scalable, enterprise-wide visibility into identities, access, and entitlements.

The Future of Identity Visibility

As AI agents and autonomous systems proliferate, comprehensive identity visibility becomes even more important. These systems require access to enterprise data, increasing the potential attack surface.

Leveraging Amazon Q Index as a Data Accessor, Saviynt ISPM allows organizations to:

• Identify and remediate risks quickly
• Enforce access policies consistently
• Maintain compliance across all applications
• Scale identity security coverage effortlessly as business needs evolve