Several forces have changed the way IT and the CISO think about network security and have also brought about the rise of a new model, identified by Gartner as zero trust network access (ZTNA).
Ransomware and other malware, phishing and its variants, identity theft, and, of course, the steady drip of exposed vulnerability exploits make today’s IT landscape challenging and the role of the CISO increasingly complicated. It’s an arms race that, by definition, we are always going to lose.
And why is this? Why is it that the simplest apparent solution to this mess—the reduction of our threat landscape and our exposure to the big nasty outside world—is hampered everywhere we turn by the changing of IT on what seems a daily basis?
In truth, it’s because organisations barely control IT anymore.
Whilst IT tools were once provided and controlled by a group of specialists in the IT department, or MIS before that, employees now play a much larger role in determining which tools are used. Indeed, IT was formerly considered in the same vein as the office building and the furniture in it. IT services and applications were provided for employees to consume, but those employees had no choice or control over how, what, or where they used them at work. However, with the cloud and services delivered from it, we have witnessed the democratisation of IT within the workplace over the past 10 years.
The primary reason for this shift is the increased proliferation of technology in people's lives. Because of this shift, user expectations, as well as IT, have evolved. With advances in technology, the growing reliance on the internet and the rising popularity of social media, IT has steadily become an extension o ..
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