What is Zero Trust and how can it transform your enterprise security?

The security status quo, built for old problems, is no match for the challenges of a global, untethered workforce. Why?

The shift to data-centric enterprises and digital transformation is driving a corresponding increase in the number and sophistication of cyber-attacks. To protect valuable data and meet the demands of modern business, organizations must adopt new security strategies. The security status quo, built for old problems, is no match for the challenges of a global, untethered workforce. Why?

To answer this question, we need to examine the trust concept. Establishing trusted access for networks, apps, devices, and users has become a significant security problem due to rapid technological changes and the evolution of work. Traditionally, corporations trusted their network boundaries to be secure. Myriad solutions guaranteed a locked-down perimeter. However, the old perimeter security concept does not apply anymore: if attackers gain access to a corporate endpoint or workload once, they can move laterally through internal systems, often unnoticed.

The new reality means that a remotely-working, global workforce requires new ways of work, productivity, and security. Established solutions such as next-gen firewalls, VPNs, web gateways, and network access control are insufficient to meet those needs. To ensure secure enterprise operations, organizations need visibility into access and processes. However, legacy security solutions do not provide sufficient visibility into networks, apps, and data outside the organizational security perimeter. Therefore, those assets cannot be trusted.

To achieve trust, you need visibility into the apps, data-flows and user identities that access corporate resources, including details such as location, time, network, and device. If an organization cannot confirm these elements, it cannot accurately establish trust for any sources accessing its data.

Furthermore, as the cloud becomes the standard for innovation and development speed, organizations that operate purely on-premises and within their perimeter will be left behind. To drive cloud transformation and bolder business competitiveness, organizations need to apply new frameworks to secure data, network, apps, endpoints, and users outside their perimeter. Enter the Zero Trust model. Zero Trust establishes trust in an unknown network by securing network communication and access so that the physical security of the transport layer can be reasonably disregarded.

Think of Zero Trust as a smarter sister of the traditional security architecture that helps prevent leaks of confidential data and lowers the risk of successful cyber attacks on your business. The Zero Trust network is built upon five fundamental assertions:

Zero Trust is also about gaining the essential visibility required to establish trust for employees and partners to work effectively and enhance data security. User trust is critical, but it is insufficient. Even a trusted user should not access company data in an untrusted environment. Context is an essential element to establish trust in a Zero Trust world.

To better understand how to lead your organization “the Zero Trust way”, answer the following questions:

If most of your answers are “No,” explore the main roadblocks to Zero Trust security for your organization and create a roadmap that can get you there.

Sinan Eren, the CEO, and co-founder of Fyde states that on your journey to Zero Trust security, your organization will initially benefit from discovering all the endpoints, applications, and workloads in your network and infrastructure. This initial discovery will lead to a robust inventory of users, devices, and services/apps. Once this organization-wide inventory is established, it will pay immediate dividends on your vulnerability remediation and data protection investments. As the next step in your Zero Trust journey, you will then be able to establish better visibility into who is accessing which service or application, using what device, when and from where. It will help drive down compliance costs and will provide a robust system of record to show to your auditors. This level of visibility over time can lead to a global policy for access control, which will shape your strategy for data protection and privacy.

Fyde’s Zero Trust approach to network security supports the borderless, global business. It provides remote, conditional, and contextual access to resources and reduces over-privileged access and associated third-party risks. With Fyde, employees and partners can access corporate apps such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Gitlab, Kibana, MS RDP, SSH, and cloud workloads. Fyde is compatible with all apps, from legacy to SAML/HTTPS, and supports access to multiple infrastructure sites without switching access profiles. To ensure secure access, Fyde solves intermittent connectivity challenges and empowers a mobile-driven and dynamic enterprise.

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