Goldman Sachs leadership didn’t get the response they expected from their return to the office (RTO) order. In fact, Fortune reported that only about half of the company’s employees showed up. With today’s tight labor market and many employers allowing remote work, employees have firm ground to stand on. How do you secure a workforce that won’t always comply with your demands?
Employee compliance with cybersecurity measures has always been a key component of digital defense. However, employees often either purposely don’t comply or make mistakes. The 2022 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index found that phishing was the most common way criminals gained access to a network. Of all the attacks remediated by X-Force in 2021, 40% involved phishing. Organizations need to focus on maintaining always-on security measures that work without depending on cyber awareness and security edicts.
Zero Trust Protects Regardless of Compliance
Organizations are moving more and more toward the Zero Trust framework. This protects them with an always-on approach instead of focusing on employee compliance. According to the 2021 Cyber Resilient Organization study, 35% of respondents have adopted this approach. Of those, 65% agreed that zero trust security strengthens cyber resilience. In addition, 63% of those organizations reported that a zero trust approach is significant or moderate. Their top reason? The approach improved operational efficiency.
Zero trust isn’t a single technology or even a single process. Instead, the zero trust approach is a framework that organizations use to implement different techniques and tools.
Other approaches focus on securing the ..
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