What is zero trust?
In the past, when organizations created remote access to corporate networks, normally, access was enabled using a VPN connection either on a corporate-owned or a personally owned Windows device, only secured by an MFA token.
In today’s world, organizations need a security model that can adapt to the complexities of the modern environment, accommodate a mobile workforce, and protect people, devices, applications, and data wherever they are located. This is the essence of zero trust. Instead of assuming that everything behind the corporate firewall is safe, the zero trust model operates on the assumption of a breach and verifies each request as if it originated from an uncontrolled network. No matter where the request comes from or what resource it is trying to access, the zero trust model teaches us to “never trust, always verify.”
Verifying identity
The majority of security breaches today involve credential theft, and lapses in...
