There is no doubt that the Cyber landscape of today has become very complicated, compounded because of the COVID19 pandemic. One of the biggest issues today has to deal with the remote workforce. One of the key security threats is that of commingling the home network with the business network, which results in a huge uptick of compromised credentials.
So what can be done? Many businesses around the world are starting to adopt a new concept known as the Zero Trust Framework, the focal point of this article.
What Is the Zero Trust Framework?
A technical definition follows:
“Instead of assuming everything behind the corporate firewall is safe, the Zero Trust model assumes breach and verifies each request as though it originates from an open network. Regardless of where the request originates or what resource it accesses, Zero Trust teaches us to ‘never trust, always verify.’ Every access request is fully authenticated, authorized, and encrypted before granting access.”1 ...read more!
