Data Access Security: Azure Files Research

Business Problem

Enterprise organizations increasingly use Azure Files to store critical data across hybrid and cloud-native environments—but managing governance across these environments remains a challenge. Gaps in visibility, access control, and compliance create risks like data breaches and operational inefficiencies.

Sound familiar?

If this is a problem that impacts your organization, SailPoint needs your input and insights. We’re exploring how to improve and extend the governance capabilities in Data Access Security to Azure Files and your input is essential. Take our survey to help shape the future of secure and consistent data management.

Here’s what we need from your input:

  • Access and authentication - help us understand how to connect, authenticate to your data securely.
  • File share usage and environment context - the context in which Azure Files is used in your organization.
  • How the file environment is structured and segmented, access models & permission structure.
  • What types of user or file behavior matter and how they are acted upon in activity monitoring.

Get involved!

We are continuing to validate our understanding of the problem space and solution. In addition, we are conducting research focused on validating our solution, better understanding the desired user experience, and ensuring we hit the most common customer use cases.

How you can help:

We’re conducting a research survey to better understand how organizations like yours manage governance in Azure Files across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Your feedback will directly inform the development of new features to improve visibility, access control, compliance, and operational efficiency.

If possible please answer our survey to share your experience and help us shape new product capabilities!

Thank you!