| | December - JanuaryENTERPRISE SECURITY6In recent years, "zero trust" has moved out of the realm of buzzwords to claim a permanent spot within modern information security. Last year, the scope, scale, and perception of remote work each went through a massive shift. Now, 82 percent of company leaders plan to allow employees to work remotely at least part of the time after the pandemic, and 47 percent will allow them to permanently work from home full-time.The active adoption of a zero-trust approach to cyber security is one of the greatest of these trends in a rapidly digitising post-Covid world because as users, devices and application workloads move outside the confines of the corporate network, the traditional model of enforcing security at the network perimeter is no longer appropriate. Organisations are increasingly understanding the importance of adopting an approach to security that ensures data can be accessed by those who need it to do their jobs, regardless of where they are working, while also ensuring the data is protected by enforcing security policies.Incorporating zero-trust principles into modern data security ensures no one point of failure when systems are breached. Zero-trust principles can ensure that even if attackers know the database location/IP, username, and password, they cannot use that information to access privileged information given to specific application roles, identity and access management (IAM), and cloud-network perimeters.In the light of the shifting cyber security requirements in a world that is increasingly becoming digital, distributed, mobile and cloud-based, end user organisations should adopt zero-trust principles to enable workers to access cloud-based and on-premise services securely. They should also evaluate their existing set of security tools in terms of support for zero trust, fill in any gaps, and retire any tools that do not support zero trust. When it comes to implementing zero trust, there is no silver bullet. Even companies with the greatest resources to throw at the task won't achieve full maturity overnight. However, the digital nature of our modern economy means that security threats will only intensify, so no business can afford to stand still.Let us know your thoughts.Taking the Zero-trust Approach to Cyber SecurityEditorialRussell Thomas Managing Editor editor@enterprisesecuritymag.comDECEMBER - JANUARY, Volume 7 - 17 Published by ValleyMedia, Inc. (ISSN 2691-4034) To subscribe to ENTERPRISE SECURITYVisit www.enterprisesecuritymag.com Copyright © 2021 ValleyMedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.Managing EditorRussell ThomasEditorial StaffAaron PierceAlex D'SouzaAva GarciaJustin S GonsalvesJoshua ParkerSri KrishnaVisualizersAsher BlakeSalesAlena D'Souzaalena@enterprisesecuritymag.comEmail:sales@enterprisesecuritymag.comeditor@enterprisesecuritymag.commarketing@enterprisesecuritymag.com*Some of the Insights are based on the interviews with respective CIOs and CXOs to our editorial staff
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