SailPoint IdentityNow Training in 2026: It Is Now ISC — What That Means for You

What Happened to SailPoint IdentityNow?

SailPoint renamed IdentityNow to Identity Security Cloud (ISC), announcing the transition on its Developer Community in March 2024. The platform was not discontinued: IdentityNow’s SaaS governance engine became the core of ISC on the SailPoint Atlas platform, and existing customer tenants were carried forward under the new name.

In practice, this was a rebrand plus an expansion. Everything IdentityNow did — identity profiles, provisioning, access requests, certification campaigns, password management — continues inside ISC. What changed is the packaging: ISC runs on SailPoint’s Atlas platform and adds optional modules such as Non-Employee Risk Management and Data Access Security on top of the original governance engine. SailPoint’s own Identity Security Cloud page now describes ISC as the upgrade path for IdentityNow implementations.

Why does this matter for a training decision? Because the training market has not caught up. Many institutes still sell “SailPoint IdentityNow training” without mentioning the rename anywhere on the page — some still list the retired “Certified IdentityNow Engineer” credential as the exam you will prepare for. If a course page cannot tell you the product’s current name, that says something about how current the curriculum is. At SailPoint Academy, we teach the platform as what it is today: SailPoint Identity Security Cloud.

Is IdentityNow Training Still Worth Taking in 2026?

Yes — but enroll in training that teaches the platform under its current name, SailPoint Identity Security Cloud (ISC). The skills are identical because ISC is IdentityNow, but Indian job portals now tag roles as ISC: Naukri listed 904 ISC openings on July 9, 2026, against 685 for IdentityIQ.

The demand signal is clear. ISC has become India’s most-listed SailPoint skill, led by Bengaluru (314 openings), Delhi NCR (~197) and Hyderabad (136) in the July 9, 2026 Naukri snapshot. Employers span Big 4 consultancies, IT services majors, BFSI GCCs and specialist identity firms — our SailPoint ISC jobs in India breakdown lists them in detail. The skills those job descriptions ask for — identity profiles, provisioning, certification campaigns, transforms, REST APIs, virtual appliance setup — are exactly what a good IdentityNow course taught, and what a current ISC course teaches.

The practical risk of “IdentityNow-branded” training is not that the content is wrong — it is that you may pay a premium for a curriculum frozen in 2023, miss the newer ISC-era topics (Atlas platform context, current certification paths, AI-assisted access recommendations), and then have to translate the old vocabulary in interviews where panels say “ISC”. Search intent is shifting the same way: recruiters and JDs increasingly write “Identity Security Cloud” first, with “IdentityNow” in brackets.

What Does SailPoint ISC (Formerly IdentityNow) Training Cover?

SailPoint ISC training — the current form of IdentityNow training — covers tenant and virtual appliance setup, source onboarding, identity profiles, lifecycle states for joiner-mover-leaver automation, access profiles and roles, certification campaigns, separation-of-duties policies, transforms, and REST API extensibility. These are the same skill areas SailPoint ISC job descriptions in India ask for.

A complete course should take you from cloud IGA concepts to hands-on configuration. The topic map below reflects both what employers test and what SailPoint’s own certification exams cover:

If you have seen our SailPoint ISC training guide, this list will look familiar — because IdentityNow training and ISC training are the same course under two names. The difference between providers is whether the syllabus, terminology and certification guidance have been updated to the ISC era.

How Much Does IdentityNow / ISC Training Cost in India?

Instructor-led SailPoint IdentityNow training in India is priced as high as Rs. 70,000, with self-paced versions around Rs. 36,000 (IdentityClasses pricing observed July 2026). SailPoint Academy’s upcoming live online SailPoint ISC course is Rs. 32,000, with a founding-batch discount announced to waitlist members first.

Because the legacy brand still carries search demand, some institutes price IdentityNow-branded courses well above the market for equivalent ISC content. Before paying, compare on substance: live vs recorded delivery, batch size, tenant access for practice, and whether the syllabus uses current ISC terminology. Our SailPoint ISC certification cost breakdown separates the two costs people conflate: institute training fees and SailPoint’s official exam fees.

For readers in the US, UK and other markets: SailPoint’s official ISC certification exams cost $400 (USD) worldwide through SailPoint’s Identity University, and SailPoint Academy’s training is delivered 100% live online via Zoom, so it is accessible from the US, UK, Australia, Canada, UAE and Singapore. Pricing shown is in Indian rupees; fee details for international students are shared after the free demo.

IdentityNow (ISC) vs IdentityIQ: Which Should You Learn First?

Learn SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQ) first if you are targeting India’s BFSI GCCs and IT services majors, then add ISC — many 2026 job descriptions ask for both platforms. IIQ remains the on-premises standard inside large Indian enterprises, while ISC is the cloud successor to IdentityNow.

This is the question we get most on WhatsApp, and we have a full comparison in SailPoint IIQ vs IdentityNow: which should you learn first? The short version: the two platforms share concepts (sources, identities, certifications, lifecycle) but differ in depth and delivery. IIQ is Java-based, on-premises, deeply customisable — and still runs identity governance at most large Indian banks, insurers and GCCs. ISC is SaaS, faster to deploy, and the direction of new deployments. The highest-value profile in 2026 is the dual-skill engineer: our IIQ to ISC migration skills guide shows why JDs increasingly ask for both.

That is why our recommended sequence is IIQ now, ISC next. SailPoint Academy’s live online SailPoint IIQ training program (Rs. 25,000, 2 months, taught by a lead trainer with 14+ years of enterprise IAM experience) builds the governance foundations on the 14-module IIQ curriculum — from Application Onboarding and Application Rules through Access Certification, Lifecycle Events and Custom Workflow. Those concepts are precisely what make ISC quick to pick up afterwards. Where each platform takes your career — analyst, engineer, architect — is mapped on our IAM career paths page.

How Do You Practice IdentityNow / ISC Hands-On?

SailPoint Identity Security Cloud has no free trial tenant and no public sandbox, so you cannot self-provision an environment to practice IdentityNow or ISC skills. Learners on the SailPoint Developer Community consistently report three routes: an employer’s tenant, the Developer Community Ambassador program, or structured training with guided tenant access.

This is the single biggest difference between learning ISC and learning IIQ. With IIQ, a determined learner can install the software locally and experiment. With ISC, there is nothing to download — the question “How can I get an instance of IdentityNow for self-learning?” is one of the recurring threads on SailPoint’s own developer forum, and the honest answer is that individuals cannot simply sign up for one. We cover the full set of workarounds in how to learn SailPoint ISC.

What About the Old IdentityNow Certification?

SailPoint retired the “Certified IdentityNow Engineer” branding along with the product name; the current official credentials are ISC certifications such as SailPoint Certified ISC Engineer, with exams costing $400 (USD) through SailPoint’s Identity University. Institute certificates are separate — SailPoint Academy issues a certificate of completion, not an official SailPoint certification.

If a training page still promises to prepare you for the “IdentityNow Engineer” exam, treat it as a currency check failed. The exam content lives on — ISC certification exams still test the five familiar areas (platform overview, configuring and modelling, provisioning, search and compliance, extending the platform) — but under updated names and blueprints. Be equally careful with wording in the other direction: no institute’s certificate is an official SailPoint credential. SailPoint Academy is an independent training provider, not affiliated with SailPoint Technologies; completing our course earns a SailPoint Academy certificate of completion, and we guide students who want to pursue the official $400 exams separately.