Organizations are increasingly creating zero trust policies to augment their digital security postures. According to Infosecurity Magazine, 15% of organizations say they implemented a zero trust policy by the end of 2019. An additional 59% of participants revealed their intention to create a policy of their own within the next 12 months.
To understand why so many organizations are flocking to zero trust, it’s important to first dive into the benefits of a zero trust policy. Take a look at how it helps organizations respond to their evolving digital security challenges. Only then is it possible to weigh the strengths and weaknesses of zero trust security so that organizations can build an effective zero trust strategy that meets their security and business requirements.
What is Zero Trust?
Zero trust is an approach to digital security that lives by the law of limiting access to sensitive data. Zero trust does this by not trusting any user, device or account by default. This approach requires a security team verify and authorize every connection into and throughout the business.
In this framing, zero trust responds to the evolution of digital security challenges beyond what the traditional perimeter security model can provide. This older idea of security rests on the assumption that threats come from outside the network and that all internal users, devices and applications can be trusted. Subsequently, organizations can simply deploy firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs) and network access controls (NACs) in order to keep computer criminals outside the network while gifting internal users unrestrained access to the network.
The times have changed, however. Many organizations have undergone pr ..
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