Zero Trust creator talks about implementation, misconceptions, strategy - Help Net Security

Zero Trust creator talks about implementation, misconceptions, strategy - Help Net Security

A little over a decade ago, John Kindervag outlined the Zero Trust security model. As a VP and Principal Analyst on the Security and Risk Team at Forrester Research, he spent years doing primary research and the result was a new model of trust, a new approach to cybersecurity, and a security strategy designed to stop the mounting data breaches.



In the intervening years, Zero Trust gained many adherents and proponents, and with good reason: the widespread adoption of mobile devices, BYOD, IoT, cloud computing, remote work (and remote access to company resources) have made the single enterprise-wide perimeter a thing of the past and have widened organizations’ attack surface considerably. Consequently, defenses had to be focused on users, assets, and resources.


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As Bill Harrod, Federal CTO at MobileIron, recently succinctly trust creator talks about implementation misconceptions strategy security