Building boardroom trust - Articulating the business impact of IAM investments with outcome-driven metrics

IBM's X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2024, revealed a staggering 71% year-over-year surge in the volume of attacks leveraging valid credentials. Meanwhile, KuppingerCole Analysts forecasted that the IAM market volume is poised to reach $35.58 billion USD by 2025, reflecting a remarkable compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.8%.

Join this session to uncover the strategies CISOs and cyber leaders can employ to effectively articulate the impact of Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions to the boardroom, securing and justifying IAM budgets. Gartner advocates leveraging outcome-driven metrics to measure the achieved protection levels, align with business strategy and incorporate the metrics into IAM programs to provide visibility and guide investment in the program.

Embrace a paradigm shift by focussing on scientific methods to measure the impact of IAM on achieving business outcomes like productivity and profitability, instead of solely focussing on a security lens. You will discover how to use outcome-driven metrics such as analysing the impact of onboarding/off-boarding times on workforce productivity to craft compelling business cases that earn the trust of business decision makers and board members.