Haider Iqbal — Director, Identity & Access Management, Thales
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Your business partners, whether those might be your distributors, your agents, sometimes even your suppliers as well, they become a really crucial part of the overall experience that you deliver to your consumers or customers… your partners and your suppliers, they actually become an extension of your brand that way as well. So in order to establish that trust with your partners, you need to make sure that the access that you’re providing to them is actually seamless to begin with.
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-your-business-partners-whether-those-might-be-your-distribu