FEATURE IDENTITY SECURITY
That includes enablement across sales and technical teams, hands-on labs, and field support to help partners build offerings like managed identity detection, governance programmes and secure access modernisation.
The goal is to shorten the time from‘ we learned it’ to‘ we can deliver it at scale’.
Looking ahead, how will AI reshape the identity security market in the region over the next 12 – 24 months and where should partners focus?
Over the next two years, identity will become even more central because AI makes attackers faster, and it also makes businesses more automated. That combination increases pressure on access controls.
You’ ll see more demand for continuous, risk-based access rather than onetime setups. You’ ll also see governance become less of a checkbox and more of a requirement to prove control especially in regulated sectors.
If I had to advise partners where to focus, it would be three areas: managed identity threat detection and response, phishingresistant authentication, and AI non-human identity control. If you can do those well, you’ ll stay competitive. •
Mahmoud Ahmed, Regional Sales Director at Okta
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