As a follow up to the previous post around Zero Trust Architecture , Cisco has been delivering zero trust architectures for customers for many years. With the platform approach provided by Cisco Zero Trust organizations gain better visibility across users, devices, containers, networks, and applications, verifying their security states with every access request. Adopting this model provides a balance between security and usability. Security teams can make it harder for attackers to collect what they need (user credentials, network access, and the ability to move laterally), and users can get a consistent and more productive security experience, regardless of where they’re located, what endpoints they’re using, or whether their applications are on-premises or in the cloud. Cisco Zero Trust provides a comprehensive approach to securing all access across applications and environment, from any user, device and location. It protects the workforce , workloads and workplace.
Its 2020 and there is still so much buzz around Zero Trust in the industry. This is in part due to the fact that organizations still fight every day to prevent incidents, minimize risk and accelerate their time to detect | respond. As hard as organizations fight, the bad guys find new innovative ways to overcome the existing controls. At the same time, organizations rapidly are digitizing everything they can. Whether its work from home due to pandemic, adding smart IOT sensors to improve manufacturing, or moving application to public cloud, security teams fight with the ever expanding attack surface while trying to operationalize security to be agile enough to keep up. As defined by NIST in Special Publication 800 -207 Zero Trust Architecture : Zero trust (ZT) is the term for an evolving set of cybersecurity paradigms that move defenses from static, network-based perimeters to focus on users, assets, and resources. A zero trust architecture (ZTA) uses zero trust principles