Zero Trust Network Architecture: More Security, More Trust

Zero Trust Architecture model first came into existence in 2010 by the efforts of John Kindervag. After a decade of its inception, technology experts are increasingly implementing Zero Trust as the pressure to protect enterprise systems and data grows significantly. In today’s era when the attacks have become more sophisticated and cyber threats have become more frequent, the need for Zerotrust network architecture is more than ever.  

What is Zero Trust?

It’s a security concept that is based on a simple notion that organizations should not trust anything inside or outside its perimeters. Rather than granting access to anything, it must verify everything that’s trying to connect to it network.

The strategy around Zero Trust is quite simple: just don’t trust anyone. It’s better to cut off all access until the system knows who wants to connect. It’s about not allowing access to IP addresses, machines, etc. until they have been authorized to connect.

Zero Trust model of information security challenges the old castle-and-moat approach that organizations were following initially. It focused on defending the perimeters with an assumption that everything already inside is safe, therefore it was cleared for access within the internal systems.

Security experts have something different to say. They have pointed out the fact that some of the most terrible data breaches have happed because of the castle-and-moat approach. Hackers once gained access inside corporate firewalls, they were easily moving through systems without much resistance.

In IT systems, there are too many default connections and too many things run openly, making the network extremely vulnerable. In that light, the need for Zero Trust network architecture increases even further.

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