Microsoft Predicts Escalation of Zero Trust in Lockdown Environments

Speaking during a Microsoft webinar, the company’s EMEA chief security advisor Cyril Voisin said he does not expect companies to “fully revert to the IT state that they were in before” COVID-19 lockdown, predicting more cloud usage in the future.

Whilst he acknowledged that this will lead to more questions about how to secure a cloud deployment, he expected more use of Zero Trust strategies. Voisin also said he expects remote working to remain an option for many companies, and he explained that there is the potential for compromises in the shift of working in an office to working from home. He acknowledged that whilst the original goal “was to make things work and security may have been an afterthought,” employees still need to be trained and receive security education.

As well as that, he said he expects VPN policies to evolve. “Companies that were already doing this notion of ‘you must use a VPN for everything you do when you are not in the office’ are starting to relax,” he said, due to latency and bandwidth issues, and he predicted companies will require more VPNs going forward.

Alongside that, he said keeping corporate resources secured whilst keeping users productive will lead to greater encryption of documents, and the deployment of endpoint detection and response (EDR) will enable that. Also, companies will invest in application management, with strategies like bring your own device (BYOD) and bring your own application important to offer more flexibility and “keep a company competitive.”

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