You know the challenges of defending today’s data, network assets, and critical workloads. Digital transformation and increasingly distributed workforces, among other influences, have dissolved the traditional network perimeter. Threat actors are also becoming more sophisticated and more organized. And you know the solution. Vendors and analysts have told you the first step toward protecting your organization in this brave new world is deploying Zero Trust to keep out malicious actors. Unfortunately, that starts the Zero Trust journey on the wrong foot.
As a network security philosophy, Zero Trust implies that you shouldn’t trust anyone inside or outside the network without thoroughly validating their identity. Zero Trust also assumes that any attempt to access the network or an application should be considered a threat. Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) takes the model one step further by only granting access to data, applications, and processes that individual users need to do their jobs. For example, someone in Engineering should not have access to Finance or HR systems.
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