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Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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In several places in this book, I have talked about why we need the Zero-Trust approach to security. Zero-Trust is not a product or service it is a mindset. We need to understand the importance of this approach and implement relevant controls where ever possible. Especially with the COVID-19 pandemic, the word "Zero-Trust" is resounding in the tech industry, and this completely makes sense due to the following reasons:

  1. Today, IT security is getting more and more complex. Security is no longer someone's job alone. Everyone has a role to play when it comes to IT security. We have more and more devices connecting to corporate networks and data coming from remote locations. Attacks are also getting more and more sophisticated.
  2. The "perimeter defense" security strategy is no longer working. We have data and applications running on on-prem as well as in the cloud. Users are connecting to these services from everywhere...
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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
Read more about Dishan Francis