How and where we work has changed dramatically, and this year, organizations are operating in a new normal. Fortunately, the hybrid multicloud environment has offered us an opportunity to rapidly pivot, allowing the workforce, customers and partners to access organizational resources and data wherever they are, whenever they need them.
While this change can afford remote access, it requires solid security strategy, governance and risk planning to protect key resources and the privacy of our users. It’s not as simple as securing the perimeter with a castle-and-moat defense. A hybrid multicloud environment can bring more complexity and a porous attack surface. Security teams need to consider new offensive and defensive strategies in today’s threat landscape.
Threat actors target the expanded attack surfaces created by distributed security environments. Organizations now face insider threats, attacks on employee-owned devices, targeted phishing schemes, destructive malware and stolen credentials from employees, admins, and third-party vendors and customers. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. The security threat landscape is broader and more complex than ever before.
As a result, many organizations are looking to apply principles of least privilege or deny-by-default policies like Zero Trust. This method aims to enable only the right users under the right conditions to have the right access to the right data. While it may seem like you’re putting resources on lockdown, successful implementation of Zero Trust can actually help bring context and insight into a rapidly evolving attack surface and improve the experience of your users.
Why Is It So Challenging to Execute Zero Trust?
Zero Trust as a security practice has been around for nearly a decade but is currently gaining popularity as many s ..
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