Zero Trust Security - Why it Matters to You!

Imagewaresystems20 Apr, 2021Security

Zero Trust is a security approach that, as the name suggests, entails trusting no device, user, app, or network inside or outside a security perimeter. Under this model, anything trying to access business data must go through a strict verification process to prove and authenticate its identity. Traditional security models, exemplified by the "castle and moat" approach, are intended to trust everything inside a security perimeter (whether the trust was deserved or not). The main flaw with this approach is that if an attacker is able to breach the network security wall, they could have unlimited access to everything within. In addition, with remote work and cloud storage increasing in popularity, it has been harder to establish a perimeter around an elastic network.