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According to our recent What’s Next in Cyber: A Global Executive Pulse Check global survey, 47% of survey respondents noted that maintaining a secure hybrid workforce is one of their top reasons for adopting a zero trust architecture (ZTA). However, 98% of CXOs admitted in this same survey that they find Zero Trust implementation challenging for three main reasons:
Good news—we can help you with all three of these things. Let’s start from the beginning: where should you start your ZTA adoption? Start with ZTNA 2.0.
You may have a few thoughts running through your mind right now, like “What is ZTNA 2.0? We haven’t even started with ZTNA 1.0. Do we need to ZTNA 1.0 first? What even is ZTNA? Why are there version numbers?”
Here is a quick, three-point primer to address these questions and get us all acclimated.
When you start building out your ZTA with ZTNA 2.0, you harness five powerful principles to protect your users, data, apps, and devices. These five principles are:
ZTNA 2.0 is imperative to help address one of the biggest security challenges today: the perimeter-less nature of modern networks. With the hybrid workforce’s widespread use of cloud-based applications, mobile devices, and the internet of things (IoT), it’s becoming increasingly difficult for network security professionals to define and protect their organization’s “perimeter.” This perimeter-less world makes it harder to control access to sensitive data and systems, leaving organizations more vulnerable to attacks from both external and internal actors.
ZTNA 2.0 doesn’t adhere to a perimeter-based construct for secure access. Instead, it consistently verifies and authenticates every user, device, application, and data before granting access to the network, regardless of whether these elements are inside or outside the organization's physical boundaries. This location-agnostic verification and authentication available with ZTNA 2.0 make it more difficult for an attacker to move laterally through the network and helps reduce the attack surface.
ZTA is a remarkably useful cybersecurity architecture to help you keep your organization protected in a world where work is an activity, not a place. Start building your ZTA strategy with ZTNA 2.0, the new standard for providing secure access for all of your users, devices, applications, and data.
If you’d like to talk to someone about how ZTNA 2.0 can help your organization, please reach out. We are excited and ready to help you start planning and implementing your ZTA strategy.
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