Privileged Access Management (PAM) has historically been treated as a compliance necessity — built around vaults, passwords, and manual approvals. But in today’s identity-driven, cloud-first, and highly regulated environments, that approach is no longer sufficient. Zero Trust principles are driving organizations to rethink how privileged access is designed, delivered, and continuously enforced.
This session will explore the lessons learned from modernizing IAM and PAM in complex, highly regulated contexts. We’ll examine how evolving privacy expectations, hybrid infrastructure, and operational pressures are reshaping the way security leaders approach privileged access. Attendees will walk away with practical insights into:
- Why Zero Trust is essential for privileged access today
- How secretless and just-in-time models reduce standing privilege and insider risk
- How policy-driven automation cuts overhead while improving security
- What a modern, identity-centric IAM process looks like in practice
This talk is designed for CISOs, IAM leaders, and practitioners who are ready to move beyond legacy vault-centric models toward adaptive, identity-centric privileged access.
