Shailesh Bhatia, Senior Manager, CyberArk, speaks to Veronica Martin about the raft of cyber threats that the company consistently highlights – and how its solutions are best-placed to build resilience, strong governance and trust.
What are the key cyber threats that you’re highlighting here at GITEX?
“At GITEX 2025, we are very excited about the next evolution of CyberArk’s unified identity security platform, which now combines modern PAM, access governance, machine identity, and AI capabilities. At GITEX, we’re showcasing the variety and diversity of solutions we offer for securing your identity portfolio. This is a core belief at CyberArk, and we can deliver it with local investment in data centres that are fully certified. At the same time, organisations within the UAE can remain compliant with local frameworks and authorities while scaling up on their AI journey.”
Can you tell me about the threat presented by proliferating online identities? Why is it such an issue?
“As per the latest statistics, 52% of customers in KSA and 60% in the UAE are concerned about proliferating identities. By proliferating identities, we mean the growth of machine identities alongside the continual evolution of human identities, including cloud identities. Organisations are becoming increasingly agile, racing toward digital transformation to make their business more efficient and reach diverse consumer segments. In this evolving landscape, it is crucial that organisations continue to secure their identity perimeter.
“People are now logging in from multiple locations – offices, coffee shops, homes, and of course, the workplace. Identity has become a key security parameter. To address this, CyberArk offers a unified identity security platform that caters to human and non-human users, privileged and non-privileged workforce members. The platform provides the right authorisation and authentication, intelligent privilege control, and governance, including review and certification. It offers comprehensive lifecycle management to ensure these identities are both secured and safeguarded.”
The cybersecurity threat landscape continues to evolve in parallel with advances in AI and cloud adoption. How are you strengthening your solutions to ensure resilience and trust in this new digital era?
“We are strengthening resilience by converging identity security into a single, unified platform that covers human, machine, and AI identities. With the rapid rise of AI in our daily lives, it has undoubtedly made life more sophisticated and streamlined, but it also expands the attack surface significantly.
“At CyberArk, we’re focused on offering the right security ecosystem to address identity challenges for human, non-human, machine, and AI identities. We approach AI in three forms, one of which is AI as a defender. CyberArk’s Cora AI is already integrated into the entire identity fabric, helping organisations maximise the value of their investments.
“In complex enterprise environments, time-to-value can often be lengthy. With CyberArk AI infused into our security portfolio, organisations can achieve faster deployments, quicker reporting, and a more accelerated ROI. Our reporting capabilities provide multiple formats that enable data-driven decision-making. These are some of the key ways in which CyberArk is advancing identity security for the modern, AI-driven enterprise.”
With the UAE’s recent focus on national AI infrastructure projects, how is your company contributing to building or enabling this ecosystem?
“We are enabling the UAE’s AI ecosystem by securing its foundational identities. Our unified identity security platform protects both human and machine identities across cloud and AI workloads. With AI-assisted threat detection and regional hosting options to meet data sovereignty requirements, organisations can innovate confidently while staying aligned with national compliance frameworks.”
Are you announcing any new partnerships or collaborations during the event, and how do these align with your growth and innovation strategy?
“Our primary takeaway from participating in this event is that CyberArk stands as a flagbearer – or, if I may say, a guardian – of identity. We take immense pride in ensuring that every consumer, customer, and partner understands and recognises the ‘threat landscape’ in identity security.
“At the same time, we are here to assist by providing the right guardrails and ecosystem to deliver effective identity security. Identity security remains a frontline challenge for all organisations, and CyberArk, as guardians of identity, is committed to offering the support and foundational platform necessary to help thwart these threats.”
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