Zero Trust

Zero Trust dictates that organizations should not give automatic access to anything inside or outside of its perimeters that requests access. Instead, every attempt to access data needs to be verifiable before access is granted. Zero Trust means zero access until that entity can be properly authorized, and this policy extends to machines, IP addresses, and the like.

Zero Trust also creates additional steps, whereby someone who got access to certain area doesn't suddenly have free reign over all of your data. In the past, if a bad actor successfully made it inside your perimeter, they became trusted and further access would be granted.

In the same way, people inside of organizations who had access to a particular subset of data, automatically had access all of the data, even if it wasn't appropriate for their line of work. Instead, Zero Trust limits access to data appropriately.

Instituting Zero Trust is undeniably effective, if it's made as easy...