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14/05/2026 6:12 pm
TL;DR: APJ identity and access management demand is projected to more than double by 2030 as organisations modernise security, support hybrid work, and move cloud-first, according to Saviynt. Identity governance is shifting from administration to a core security control plane that must span human, NHI, and AI access.
Editorial analysis by NHI Mgmt Group, based on content published by Saviynt: “Saviynt Appoints Tim Wedande as Field CTO for Asia Pacific and Japan”.
Key questions
Q: How should APJ teams treat identity as a strategic control plane?
A: They should treat identity as the layer that governs access decisions across applications, data, and business processes, not as a back-office provisioning function.
Q: Why does IAM growth increase security risk for enterprises?
A: Growth increases the number of identities, entitlements, and business integrations that must be governed consistently.
Q: What breaks when AI access is governed separately from human and NHI access?
A: Separate governance creates inconsistent policy enforcement, slower revocation, and blind spots in review.
Practitioner guidance
- Define identity as a security control plane Recast IAM governance so access policy, lifecycle control, and entitlement review are owned as security architecture decisions rather than administrative tasks.
- Unify governance for human, NHI, and AI access Inventory the three identity classes together, then align ownership, approval paths, and offboarding rules so one group cannot outpace the others.
- Recheck entitlement growth against business risk Use expansion in cloud services, hybrid work, and digital transformation to identify where access volume is outgrowing manual review and certification capacity.
Bottom line: Identity is moving into the security plane, which makes governance quality a direct security issue rather than an administrative one.
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14/05/2026 6:13 pm
Identity is becoming the security control plane, not just a provisioning layer. The APJ story is not about IAM growth in isolation; it is about where security authority is moving. When cloud adoption, hybrid work, and digital transformation all increase access dependency at once, identity policy becomes the deciding layer for business access and security enforcement. Practitioners should read this as a shift in operating model, not a procurement trend.
A question worth separating out:
Q: When should security teams prioritize trust and privilege controls in an identity security strategy?
A: They should prioritize them whenever machines, service accounts, and privileged users can reach sensitive systems or data. Trust and privilege controls matter most when access is dynamic, distributed, and hard to see end to end. A zero trust approach only works when identity, context, and least privilege are enforced continuously, not assumed after initial authentication.
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