Starting your journey to zero trust adoption

October 21, 2021 – Article posted on TechCrunch

In this article, GuidePoint Security’s CTO and VP of Security Strategy, Joe Leonard, examines what zero trust is, what it isn’t and how organizations can facilitate a shift to a zero trust security model.

With cloud, IoT, BYOD and a mobile and remote workforce, many users, applications and data are now outside the traditional organizational boundary. As such, organizations are recognizing the need to shift their cybersecurity approach to a model that implicitly never trusts and always verifies.

Many organizations are only now beginning to look at zero trust and trying to figure out what it means to them. What’s the impact from a security and productivity perspective? How do we go about implementing this approach? What tools do we need? How will we afford this?

Shifting to a zero trust model is not about replacing the infrastructure wholesale. It’s more of an incremental journey of modernizing the IT and security environment. 

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