What is zero trust?
In the past, when organizations created remote access to corporate networks, normally, access was effected with a VPN connection either on a corporate-owned or a personally owned Windows device, only secured by an MFA token.
Today, organizations require a new security model that effectively adapts to the complexity of the modern environment, embraces the mobile workforce, and protects people, devices, applications, and data wherever they are located.
This is the core of zero trust. Instead of believing that everything behind the corporate firewall is safe, the zero trust model assumes a breach and verifies each request as though it originated from an uncontrolled network. Regardless of where the request originates from or what resource it accesses, 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 cyber hygiene amplify the potential...
