The AI-Ready Enterprise Needs a Secure Access Fabric - Nasstar

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Overview

In this CISO Inspired Summit masterclass, recorded in Manchester in September 2026, Sean Morris, CTO for Nasstar's Microsoft business, and Ross Duke, Network Consultant at Nasstar, bring the AI readiness and secure networking conversations together.

Their argument is that AI is not so much creating new security risks as exposing the ones already in your estate, from overshared SharePoint sites and data leakage to staff working from anywhere. They cover agentic AI adoption, the Zero Trust pillars, and how Microsoft security tooling and Fortinet SD-WAN, SASE and ZTNA can work together as one set of policies.

Key takeaways

  • AI exposes existing weaknesses: you may not know you have overshared in SharePoint until an AI tool surfaces it.
  • The Zero Trust pillars of identity, endpoints, data, apps and cloud underpin a secure route to AI adoption.
  • Microsoft tooling such as Purview helps address data leakage, while Fortinet delivers SASE and ZTNA across the network.
  • Security and networking should operate as one set of policies rather than separate silos.
  • Customer examples show modernised, AI-ready networks cutting running costs, including one network that reduced its running costs by 50%.

Watch the full session on YouTube: The AI-Ready Enterprise Needs a Secure Access Fabric

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