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The new security mandate:
Never trust, always verify
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Organisations are
coming to realise that
merely a user name and
password are not enough
to secure their cyber
existence. And as Kamel
Heus, Regional Manager,
MEA at Centrify, explains
a ‘zero trust security
approach’ is increasingly
gaining acceptance.
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he concept of zero trust is as profound
in cybersecurity as the sweeping
transformation generated by the
arrival of cloud, mobility agility and availability.
Gartner projects that worldwide security
spending will reach US$96 billion this year,
yet we continue to read headlines validating
that companies can’t address the threats
fast enough, regardless of the growing list of
vendors and solutions available.
What’s even more surprising is that less than
10% of that spend is allocated for identity
and access management.
Repeated mega breaches in cybersecurity
have forced experts and vendors to relook
at the basic underlying best practices and
assumptions that have been adopted in the
past and question their viability.
The revolutionary concept of zero trust
security assumes that the threat actor may
be already within an organisation and is
posing as an employee. Or alternatively, has
assumed the credentials of an employee.
The concept of zero trust seeks to limit the
opportunity of such an internal threat actor
to use the assumed employee credentials
and breach other parts of the organisation.
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