Tech Show London Day 1: ManageEngine Breaks Down Why Zero Trust Fails

ExCeL London was abuzz yesterday as Tech Show London 2026 officially commenced, drawing over 17,000 technology leaders to explore the "digital foundations of tomorrow". Among the standout contributors on Day 1 was ManageEngine, whose sessions focused on grounding high-level security concepts in operational reality.

Solving the identity paradox

At the Cloud & Cyber Security Expo Theatre 2, Hariharan N, a Senior Technical Evangelist for ManageEngine, addressed a packed audience with his session, "Mission Possible: Basics That Break Zero-Trust Failures".

Hariharan challenged the industry's focus on advanced persistent threats, arguing that Zero Trust architectures often fail not because of sophisticated hacking, but due to poor visibility and weak identity hygiene.

The session highlighted how modern breaches increasingly exploit legitimate credentials to hide within normal network activity. Hariharan emphasized that getting the "SIEM fundamentals" and identity management right is the only way to stop attacks that blend in with standard user behavior.

Looking ahead to day 2: The fight for digital sovereignty

While Day 1 set a high bar, attendees have a major strategic session to look forward to today. Romanus Prabhu, ManageEngine’s Director of Product Support and Security Evangelist, is set to take the stage to discuss a growing concern for modern enterprises:

Concentration risk in a world dominated by a few massive cloud providers.

His session, "Vendor-Neutral Endpoint Resilience in a Hyperscaler-Dominated World," will take place today, March 5, at 13:55 in the Cloud & Cyber Security Expo Keynote theater.

Prabhu is expected to present a practical framework for sovereign and vendor-agnostic resilience, drawing lessons from recent global outages to show how organizations can retain operational command and preserve sensitive telemetry within their own jurisdiction.

A veteran name in Enterprise IT management

ManageEngine’s prominent role at the event comes as the company celebrates two decades of innovation in the endpoint management space . Recently named a "Challenger" in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Management Tools, ManageEngine has solidified its position as a primary architect for distributed IT environments.

With over 31,000 enterprises globally utilizing its platform, ManageEngine continues to champion a Unified Endpoint Management and Security (UEMS) approach. The company brings management, security, and digital employee experience together in a single architecture, making it a desirable choice for organizations seeking to reduce tool sprawl and operate consistently at scale.

For those attending the final day of the show, ManageEngine specialists remain on hand at Stand C260 to provide deep-dive demonstrations of their AI-powered enterprise management suite.