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Privileged access in UAE enterprises now extends beyond administrators to machine identities, cloud workloads, vendors, and OT systems. Traditional PAM models built for centralized data centers no longer address hybrid infrastructure risk. Extended Privileged Access Management applies distributed, Zero Trust enforcement across IT, OT, and cloud — removing standing privilege and reducing systemic exposure. Read how modern cyber security systems must evolve to secure privileged access architecturally.

AI is no longer just a tool. It now executes tasks, calls services, and delegates decisions across enterprise systems. That shift changes the security boundary.The real risk isn’t the model. It’s identity.As AI agents interact through MCP and Agent-to-Agent workflows, permissions can quietly propagate across systems. Without continuous validation, inherited access turns into silent privilege escalation. Machine identities multiply. Governance weakens. Traditional perimeter security isn’t built for this. Zero trust must evolve to validate every machine identity, reauthorize every delegated action, and enforce contextual access at each step.This blog explores how identity-first zero trust protects AI ecosystems from structural risk and keeps innovation aligned with governance.

Across the UAE, cybersecurity compliance has moved from being an IT responsibility to a board-level concern. Regulators, enterprise customers, and government entities now expect organizations to demonstrate measurable controls, not assumptions.

With ADEK compliance becoming a core operating requirement, institutions need secure digital systems, transparent governance, and fully auditable processes that protect students, staff, and research assets.

Privileged access across human users, machine identities, and automated systems now demands deep governance and intelligent controls. With 81% of UAE enterprises citing cloud misconfigurations as a major security risk and increasing adoption of AI and hybrid infrastructure, traditional security models are insufficient without modern privilege controls and oversight.

Cybersecurity in the UAE has entered the compliance spotlight. Are your systems ready? By 2026, organisations will no longer be assessed on whether cyber controls exist, but on whether cyber security systems operate as verifiable, auditable compliance mechanisms.