Event insights from the Hippo team
It was great to see you at DTX Manchester 2026!
We’ve compiled all of our insights from the conference into this helpful destination so you can catch up on all the presentations and resources from the Hippo team. Just complete the download form on this web page to gain access.
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Insights: Secure by design: How to protect your business
In an era of hyper-connected systems and evolving digital threats, traditional security perimeters are no longer enough to keep your business safe. Most modern security breaches don’t start at the “front door”; they begin inside the organisation through human error, stolen credentials, or “access bloat” – permissions that have quietly grown beyond what is actually needed.
With the average cost of an unauthorised breach reaching £3.5 million, the stakes for your financial, operational, and reputational health have never been higher.
This eBook explores how to treat identity as a foundational security control. You will learn how to use access, context, and continuous verification to reduce risk, without slowing your people down.
What's inside for business leaders?
- Continuous trust is better than one-time access: Moving toward a Zero Trust model means trust is never assumed indefinitely. Instead, access is continuously assessed based on context—who is making the request, what device they are using, and whether the action makes sense at that moment.
- Access management is a human-centric shield: Strong security should act as a "quiet safety net" that protects your employees and customers from mistakes. When controls are designed to be responsive rather than rigid, you reduce the need for risky "workarounds" and build long-term trust with your users.
- Visibility reduces the "blast radius": By narrowing access to only what is strictly necessary and auditing "access bloat," you limit the damage an attacker can do. Clear visibility into who has access to what allows your team to spot unusual behaviour early and respond before a minor error becomes a major incident.
Insights: Cyber trends 2026: Strengthening resilience in an AI-driven, identity-first world
This year’s cybersecurity landscape isn’t just about more threats, it’s about a convergence of technologies increasing risk for businesses. AI, identity and cloud have merged, creating a single, complex attack surface.
At Hippo, we’ve spent years working with some of the UK’s largest public and private sector organisations to deliver vital digital transformation.
Access this report for our take on the trends defining 2026.
Presentation slides
Following the conference, we'll also send the session slides for our talk on the main stage: Securing the person, not the perimeter: Why humans are the missing link in your cyber security strategy
Our talk at DTX Manchester 2026
Securing the person, not the perimeter: Why humans are the missing link in your cyber strategy
In a landscape saturated by tech-first products, how does prioritising user-centred service design over the traditional security perimeter create a safer, de-risked route to solving real-world challenges?
As antiquated security perimeters fail, how can organisations merge identity management and Zero Trust principles to build next-generation systems centred around the human rather than the product?
How can leaders shift their focus from procuring ‘silver-bullet’ products toward an outcome-driven delivery approach that tackles identity, risk, and security as a unified human challenge?
- Presented by James Odom, Director of Cyber, Jim Small, Director of Identity, and Pelin Demir, UX Designer at Hippo
- 2:30pm on Wednesday 29th April
