The highly distributed nature of today’s workplace is forcing companies to accelerate their Zero Trust strategies. Over the past 18 months, organizations have been focused almost exclusively on giving remote employees access to the tools and information they need to remain productive, no matter where they’re working. With that task largely accomplished, companies are now facing pressure to modernize their strategies to secure even the most complex environments.
As a solution to this challenge, many companies are adopting Zero Trust security strategies, which are based on the assumption that all content—regardless of whether or not it originates from a trusted source—is untrustworthy. This forces websites, web apps, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms, and even email content to be treated as if they are malicious and need to continually gain and maintain trust throughout every engagement.
Whether implementing least-privileged tenets for user access or securing the connections to and between the disparate aspects of today’s hybrid multi-cloud deployments, Zero Trust provides a framework to secure even the most complex environments. Yet for many organizations, there’s still confusion regarding what Zero Trust initiatives should entail, where to begin, and how best to overcome the organizational obstacles that result from such a cross-functional undertaking.
In a new ebook based on a research study, analyst firm ESG surveyed nearly 500 IT and cybersecurity professionals in the U.S. and Canada to better understand how the move to Zero Trust architectures is going. The results are nothing short of astounding—shedding light on a major transformation of security best practices and approaches across industries.
Some of the key takeaways that IT and cybersecurity leaders shared in the study include these:
Zero Trust is radically transforming the way organizations around the world secure their most complex environments, but it’s clear that IT and cybersecurity professionals have varying ways of planning, implementing, and managing Zero Trust strategies. The good news is that there is no single way, and organizations of many different stripes that have taken different approaches have been immensely successful and are seeing tangible benefits through simpler, more efficient, and hardened security.
Download the ebook to get the complete research findings and insights. You’ll learn why ZTNA is considered a key pillar to the success and implementation of these cybersecurity initiatives.
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