How adaptive trust makes security efficient
Zero trust is a comprehensive security framework that requires everyone—and every service account—to authenticate identity before entering the corporate network. Every app and every device, as well as all the data they contain, must also be verified for each session. Considering the multitude of people, devices, and apps it takes to make today’s businesses hum,…
5 considerations for building a zero trust IT environment
Zero trust isn’t a product or service, and it’s certainly not just a buzzword. Rather, it’s a particular approach to cybersecurity. It means exactly what it says – not “verify, then trust” but “never trust and always verify.” Essentially, zero trust is about protecting data by limiting access to it. An organization will not automatically…
Shadow IoT: A growing threat to enterprise security
Zscaler released their second annual IoT report, compiled after analyzing their customers’ IoT transactions in the Zscaler cloud for two weeks. The company found 553 different IoT devices across 21 categories from 212 manufacturers. Organizations around the world are observing this Shadow IoT phenomenon, where employees are bringing unauthorized devices into the enterprise. With this…
Santa and the Zero-Trust Model: A Christmas Story
On Christmas Eve, snow will fall, Yule logs will blaze, visions of sugarplums will dance in children’s heads, and in the eyes of zero-trust experts, countless security breaches will happen in homes around the world. Zero-trust security has blanketed IT like the snow Bing Crosby sang about. Based on the idea of maintaining strict access…