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Umaimah Khan

Co-Founder and CEO at Opal Security
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Umaimah Khan is the co-founder and CEO of Opal Security, a next-generation identity security company. As a mathematician and engineering leader, Umaimah knows first-hand the challenges of managing secure authorization and access management pathways. She began her career as a researcher in the federal government, before leading infra and security at several startups. Umaimah graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science.

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  • “Companies can’t just declare an MFA policy; they must actively govern it with MFA controls on approvers and requesters,” she said. “And MFA alone is not enough to protect against these continuous attacks. Companies must also improve their odds by implementing principles of least privilege to reduce access to data in the first place.”

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