Zero Trust Security is a proven model for implementing robust and selective cyber security. Zero Trust involves removing vulnerable permissions, unnecessary access and excessive access in favor of specific delegation and proper provisioning with fine granularity.
Enabling Zero Trust eliminates the sharing of admin passwords and allows individual and dynamic authentication for every administrative action.
Ensuring Least Privileged involves issuing just the permissions an admin requires to do their job – no more and no less.
An effective Zero Trust architecture improves enterprise security posture and compliance while simultaneously reducing exposure of sensitive data and assets to potential intrusion.
What is Zero Trust Architecture?
According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) is an enterprise cybersecurity architecture based on zero trust principles, designed to prevent data breaches and limit internal lateral movement.
Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) aims to strengthen an organization’s cybersecurity and protect its assets from threats. It acknowledges that threats exist both inside and outside the traditional network perimeter and assumes that security breaches are inevitable. More importantly, it allows users to access only what they need to perform their jobs. Finally, it identifies anomalous or potentially malicious activities to prevent cyberattacks from spreading across the network.
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