Q&A with Daniel Wicks of Saviynt, Security Excellence Awards finalist

‘Our proudest achievement in the past year has been successfully delivering large-scale global identity governance transformations’

Saviynt is a finalist in the Enterprise Security Solution of the Year category in Computing’s Security Excellence Awards. We caught up with Daniel Wicks, Regional VP UK &Ireland to find out more about Saviynt.

Why do events like the Computing Security Excellence awards matter?

Events like the Computing Security Excellence Awards celebrate innovation, recognise industry leadership, and highlight organisations that are shaping the future of cybersecurity. For a company like Saviynt, being part of these awards is a showcase for how our identity-centric approach is redefining enterprise security.

We also welcome the chance to connect with peers, partners, and customers to share insights and best practices. These awards help set benchmarks, inspire excellence, and emphasise the critical role identity security plays in protecting businesses in an increasingly complex threat landscape.

What would winning this award mean to you/your company/your team?

Winning would be a recognition of our team’s dedication to delivering world-class identity solutions that secure millions of identities globally. It would validate the hard work, creativity, and innovation across every department from engineering and product to customer success and professional services.

For our customers, it would reinforce confidence that they are partnering with a market leader committed to proactive, scalable and intelligent identity governance. For the team, it would be a motivator to continue challenging industry norms and setting higher standards in enterprise security.

What is your company’s proudest achievement over the past year?

Our proudest achievement in the past year has been successfully delivering large-scale global identity governance transformations, exemplified by our work with The Adecco Group, a global leader in workforce solutions. We consolidated multiple regional systems into a centralised Saviynt platform, automating provisioning, access certification and compliance reporting for over 10,000 users.

This project demonstrated our platform’s scalability, flexibility and ability to reduce risk, improve operational efficiency, and enable a seamless user experience. These are all achievements that directly reflect our mission to make identity the new security perimeter.

What have been the biggest challenges of the year so far, and how have you overcome them? How have your people helped with that?

The most significant challenge has been helping enterprises navigate increasingly complex identity landscapes while modernising legacy IAM systems. Organisations face sprawling cloud environments, diverse applications, and hybrid workforce models that make identity governance more difficult than ever.

We overcame those challenges through innovation, leveraging AI-powered intelligence, adaptive MFA, passwordless authentication, and automated governance, and by ensuring our team collaborated closely with customers. Our engineers, consultants, and customer success teams provided hands-on support, clear communication, and training, which empowered customers to adopt scalable, zero-trust identity frameworks confidently.

Which new technology trend are you placing your bets on?

We are placing our bets on AI-driven identity security. This trend is transforming identity from a reactive control plane into a proactive, strategic layer of enterprise security. In line with this, by combining machine learning, generative AI, and risk-based adaptive authentication, Saviynt enables real-time insights, predictive risk scoring and intelligent automation across identity governance.

Our Intelligence Suite demonstrates how AI can reduce duplicate accounts, automate access certification, and enhance decision-making, delivering measurable security improvements while maintaining a frictionless user experience.