Zero Trust Evolution & Transforming Enterprise Security
Author: Sanjay Kak
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Published: 2022
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe "Zero Trust" architecture (ZTA ) effectively responds to data breaches and ransomware attacks. Zero Trust is a security ideology based upon the principles of continuously authenticating and verifying users' access to devices, workloads, applications, and systems. As the name sounds, it means no trust in user or system access requests, devices, or IT infrastructure. The cybersecurity products enabled with Zero Trust security can help IT management redesign access management, dynamic policy updates, micro-segmentation around critical applications, and secure diverse endpoints to reduce attack surfaces with fewer complexities. The Zero Trust framework helps cybersecurity professionals to defend vastly dispersed and complex networks from insider and external cyber threats. Zero Trust architecture is a significant shift in the security paradigm [1]. It requires access control implementations to hold that no implicit trust may be awarded for any user or device, even with a prior history of successful validated authentication and authorization. Over the last two decades, it is essential to understand how network security has evolved from perimeter-driven network security to Zero Trust security, which places security controls at user, resource, workloads, and micro-segment levels. Zero Trust can replace the traditional complexities of integrating dynamic data centers, distributed workloads, endpoints, remote users, and cloud application landscape and can stop bad actors from exploiting the enterprise network. ColorTokens' response to a surge in recent cyberattacks is to advocate the adoption of Zero Trust architecture and provide products enabled with Zero Trust principles and services to enterprises. This project created an opportunity to review ColorTokens Zero Trust products and services. The choice of ColorTokens products is due to its high rating in the year 2020 for five categories under which it got the best Zero Trust security awards [2]. The project scope includes an analysis of Zero Trust architecture, and a review of ColorTokens Zero Trust enabled products that benefit enterprises in reducing the attack surface. The author believes that the information presented in this paper will help cybersecurity professionals to explore the benefits of Zero Trust and add it to securing networks and data they are the guardian of protecting.