The trust model of cybersecurity is broken. Since the shift to cloud and the move away from siloed on premise infrastructure, IT environments have grown ever more complex, expanding in both size and variety of components.
Trust is permissible when a small team of engineers is accessing on premise infrastructure. However, in the modern hybrid systems employed by many businesses, trusting the multitude of end points and variables to manually adhere to all authentication measures and preventative procedures is risky. We all know that just one phishing email is enough to potentially lead to a critical data breach. Such incidents can be incredibly damaging for a business: IBM estimated that this year data breaches cost businesses an average of $4.24 million -- a 17 year high.
To manage this new world, many organizations are turning to Zero Trust. Indeed, in May this year US President Joe Biden issued an Executive Order mandating all federal agencies start to align their cloud environments with Zero Trust architecture.
So, what is Zero Trust? In essence, it is a cybersecurity model that constantly identifies and authenticates each device, user, and identity before providing them with access to data. This ensures that bad actors are unable to exploit sensitive data, even if they have gained access to an IT environment. By requiring constant authentication at every stage of the workflow, trust is removed from the equation and eliminated as a cybersecurity vulnerability.
For a Zero Trust model to be effective, as much importance needs to be placed on the behavioral and cultural elements as the technology changes. Human ..
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