Zero Trust: Beyond access controls - Help Net Security

Zero Trust: Beyond access controls - Help Net Security

As the Zero Trust approach to cybersecurity gains traction in the enterprise world, many people have come to recognize the term without fully understanding its meaning.


One common misconception: Zero Trust is all about access controls and additional authentication, such as multi-factor authentication.



While these two things help organizations get to a level of Zero Trust, there is more to it: a Zero Trust approach is really an organization-wide architecture. Things aren’t always as they seem, and access controls by themselves are meaningless without a comprehensive, centrally managed infrastructure to back them up.


Let’s consider this – if an employee of an organization has their laptop stolen and their account becomes compromised, the only protective measure the organization can take is controlling access to the de ..

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