In fast-paced, shared device environments like healthcare, manufacturing, and other critical industries, traditional access management approaches are falling short, quietly eroding both security and productivity. This episode explores how outdated methods, like shared credentials and clunky logins, create friction, increase risk, and undermine compliance. We’ll discuss what a modern, strategic access management approach looks like and how passwordless authentication solutions are closing the gap between security and usability.

As a CISO, there are moments when you realize you’ve been asking the wrong question. For months, I’d been personally trying to solve for device sprawl, authentication fatigue, and mobile device loss in a rapidly shifting hybrid work environment for one of my projects. My team was burned out managing mobile devices manually or with disparate tools. Worse yet, we lacked the visibility we needed to properly assess our security risk.

After spending the spring at ViVE and HIMSS, two of the healthcare industry's most influential conferences, the industry is clearly standing at a major inflection point. Mobile transformation is no longer a trend on the horizon—it's here, it's accelerating and it's bringing a wave of complexity that the industry isn't fully prepared for. AI, similarly, is moving quickly from hype to implementation, but the road to meaningful adoption is full of friction, and the cyber risks we face today are more sophisticated and business-disrupting than ever before.

In this episode of Talking HealthTech, host Peter Birch discusses healthcare digitalisation with Jason Potts and Jamie Robertson from Imprivata during Digital Health Week New Zealand 2024 hosted by HiNZ.

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