When COVID-19 hit, many organisations had to accelerate digital transformation overnight and security strategies were placed under the spotlight. Now with privileged access management giving malicious hackers more opportunity to exploit organisational vulnerabilities, businesses are repeatedly putting themselves at the risk of having exposed assets, costly damage and a difficult path to recovery.

In a new era of cloud-first and movements to Azure Active Directory (AAD) environments, 90% of organisations worldwide have concerns about storing access credentials in the cloud. In addition, many organisations struggle with complexity of environments, leaving gaps that are vulnerable to attack. Developing an agile security policy not only minimises security risks, but facilitates ease of user access and operational efficiency.

We were joined by cybersecurity and IT leaders to understand how to utilise zero trust frameworks and how to streamline access processes to drive business continuity and operational agility.