Haider Iqbal — Director, Identity & Access Management, Thales
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The whole identity and access management layer becomes so much more important, right? Because if you don’t have an inventory of all the agentic AI identities in your infrastructure, what you can’t see, you can’t protect… Having visibility on the ecosystem of agents that you have in your ecosystem and your extended ecosystem, and then being able to grant granular access rights to them as well becomes absolutely crucial.
What does Haider Iqbal say on The Agile Brand with Greg Kihlström?
Haider Iqbal, Director, Identity & Access Management, Thales, says: In this interview Haider Iqbal, Director of Identity & Access Management at Thales, explains how partner onboarding friction undermines agility and digital trust. He recommends a holistic identity strategy—extending passwordless authentication and delegated access controls to partners—and warns that unmanaged lingering access and the rise of agentic AI make visibility and granular access management essential for security and operational speed across extended ecosystems.
From: The Agile Brand with Greg Kihlström
Cite as: Haider Iqbal. (2026). On The Agile Brand with Greg Kihlström. Retrieved from https://research.agilebrandguide.com/insights/haider-iqbal-the-whole-identity-and-access-management-layer-becomes-so-mu