Bolster Your Digital Transformation with a Zero Trust Philosophy

Bolster Your Digital Transformation with a Zero Trust Philosophy




As part of Solutions Review’s Premium Content Series—a collection of contributed columns written by industry experts in maturing software categories— Kevin Orr of RSA Federal waxes zero trust philosophy, and the role MFA plays in bolstering your digital transformation.




In enterprise and cybersecurity, two realities remain intrinsically linked: the pressing need to accelerate the digital transformation of business operations and the accompanying increased cyber risk an enterprise assumes through that expanded digitalization.

To maximize the operational and financial benefits of digital transformation efforts, organizations must ensure that technological implementation occurs in lockstep with the supervision, guidance, and best practices identified by the organization’s information security team. But transformation need not be implemented in conflict with the maintenance of security. In fact, when considering the adoption of new technologies, organizations can simultaneously improve business functionality if they bolster their transformation with the principles and tools of a zero-trust identity management architecture.


Zero trust is, simply, a philosophy of continuously verifying the access and identity of all devices, applications, and users in an enterprise. At its core: “never trust, always verify.”




Implementation of a zero-trust philosophy will boost any enterprise’s digital transformation because those discussions are inherently introspective, causing organizations to reckon with real, on-the-ground data representing the usage of its platforms. Important questions foundational to zero-trust implementation can reshape digital transformation plans. Who truly needs access? Who no longer needs access? What level of access do they truly need? When and where must they have that access? For how long? ..

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