Demystifying Zero Trust

The age of the corporate network and single security perimeter is coming to an end. Users are increasingly working remotely, conducting their work over the public internet. The rise of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) apps, cloud platforms, and other cloud-based services has eroded the efficacy of using the network as the primary element to secure a resource. We can no longer rely on a single, sealed-off corporate network and afford trust to all the systems that reside within it as the boundaries between networks are now blurred.

Enter zero trust; a cybersecurity philosophy on how to think about security and how to do security. Zero trust is based upon the principle of “trust nothing, verify everything” and focusing on protecting resources regardless of where they are physically or digitally and to never trust anything by default.

 

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