Zero Trust
Zero Trust Security
Cyberattacks or data breaches today are not done through attacks on the business networks. Instead, weak, stolen, or compromised credentials are being taken advantaged to infiltrate networks. Once threat actors are inside a network, they move laterally to find other accounts with more privileged permissions to gain access to critical infrastructure and sensitive data.
According to a study done by Forrester, at least 80% of companies that experienced a data breach, acknowledged that a compromised privileged account was used. This is why a big part of the Zero Trust journey begins with adjusting your Identity and Access Management (IAM).
Six Tenets of Zero Trust
To understand how implementing a Zero Trust strategy can help organizations, an understanding of the 6 tenets in which it is built around is needed.
Verify who is requesting access
Identities today are not just people, they can also refer to workloads, services, and machines. Being able to verify user identity through multifactor authentication can help organizations lessen the need for multiple credentials while lowering the available attack surfaces for cyber criminals.
Keep the IT infrastructure secure
Grant the least privilege
Secure data pathways
Audit everything
Provide adaptive control
Zero Trust Privilege must be adaptive to risk context. A good example of this would be if a request comes from a potentially risky location, a higher level of verification should be required before granting access. With modern machine learning, it has become possible to analyze a user’s behavior and find anomalous or unusual activities, which promotes taking preventive actions proactively to minimize potential security risks.
Six Tenets of Zero Trust
To understand how implementing a Zero Trust strategy can help organizations, an understanding of the 6 tenets in which it is built around is needed.
Breach avoidance
Compliance
Digital transformation
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