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24/06/2026 7:04 pm
TL;DR: Identity and access challenges are the focus of Imprivata Connect, positioning access governance as the shared problem across enterprise, privileged, and healthcare workflows, according to Imprivata. The practical takeaway is that teams need to evaluate identity lifecycle, access policy, and privileged access together rather than as separate programmes.
NHIMG editorial — here’s why we think this discussion matters
Questions worth separating out
Q: How should organisations govern enterprise and privileged access together?
A: Treat them as one governance problem with different enforcement tiers.
Q: When does access compliance become a governance control instead of a reporting exercise?
A: When it can show who approved access, who used it, when it changed, and when it was removed.
Practitioner guidance
- Map access governance ownership across all identity types Document who owns enterprise access, privileged access, vendor access, and device access controls.
- Align lifecycle events with privilege state changes Trigger review, recertification, and offboarding actions when roles, vendors, or device relationships change.
- Consolidate access compliance evidence into one control narrative Build one audit narrative that shows who approved access, who used it, when it expired, and what was removed.
What to expect at the briefing
Imprivata's full event page covers the operational themes this post intentionally leaves at a higher level:
- Event framing around enterprise access, privileged access, and compliance topics the session is designed to address.
- The specific audience and use cases that motivate the event, useful if you need to decide whether it fits your programme priorities.
- Additional product and solution references connected to Imprivata's access management portfolio.
- The event-oriented context for why these identity challenges are being gathered into one discussion.
👉 Read Imprivata's event page on identity and access challenges →
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25/06/2026 4:11 am
This event reinforces that access governance is now a cross-domain programme, not a point solution. Imprivata’s framing brings enterprise access, privileged access, and access compliance into the same conversation. That matters because control failures usually occur at the seams between these areas, where ownership is unclear and lifecycle steps are duplicated or missed. Practitioners should treat identity governance as a single operating model with multiple enforcement surfaces.
A few things that frame the scale:
- Only 44% of developers are reported to follow security best practices for secrets management, exposing a significant developer behaviour gap, according to The State of Secrets in AppSec.
- Organisations maintain an average of 6 distinct secrets manager instances, creating fragmentation that undermines centralised control, according to The State of Secrets in AppSec.
A question worth separating out:
Q: How can security teams tell whether access governance is actually working?
A: Look for evidence that access changes are reviewed on time, elevated rights expire as expected, and offboarding removes access without manual chasing. A healthy programme produces a clear chain from request to approval to removal. If each step lives in a different tool or team, governance is likely fragmented.
👉 Read our full editorial: Imprivata Connect spotlights identity and access governance pressure
