WHITEPAPER | How Does Zero Trust Work?

30 Aug

ZERO TRUST – A SECURITY MINDSET FOR MODERN BUSINESSES

Long before the covid-inspired work- from-home revolution, the traditional enterprise security perimeter was already disappearing. With remote work poised to be a mainstay of future business operations, and more and more businesses adopting software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions, the idea of securing a network inside four walls is no longer relevant.

While many solutions exist that attempt to draw a secure “perimeter” around outside assets, modern best-in-class cybersecurity is based on a zero-trust approach.

“Zero-trust” is one of the hottest buzzwords in cybersecurity today. The term describes a systematic approach to minimising, or even eliminating, implicit trust and instead continuously confirming every digita transaction. While traditional methods aim to protect networks and assume everything within them can be trusted, zero-trust focuses on safeguarding resources.

In a recent study of IT professionals, Australian respondents were substantially more likely (88%) than their counterparts in Malaysia (75%), Singapore (65%), India (62%), or Japan (43%) to be investigating a zero trust approach. In fact, following a sharp rise in cybersecurity incidents, more than a quarter of Australian respondents had begun implementing zero-trust in 2021 alone.