Zero Trust insists we trust no one, and verify everyone before they come through the locked door into our secure room or segmented network. The future of cybersecurity demands it and the zero-trust architecture simply defines it.
This guide will address the challenges of this journey and guidance on ways to ease it. Zero Trust requires more than a simple technical solution, or just a better identity solution.
It requires a strategy and RedSeal can help.
President Biden’s Executive Order gave agency heads 60 days to develop plans for implementing a Zero Trust architecture. The Office of Management and Budget's memorandum goes further, citing five key pillars to Zero Trust: identity, devices, networks, applications, and data.
Zero Trust is ultimately not about protecting people or assets, it’s about securing data. To that end, it makes most sense to segment at the application layer. RedSeal makes sure that as workloads come and go, they only travel into the segments they’re meant to, and nowhere else.
The conversation about Zero Trust is still too myopically focused on identity. Equally important is device inventory. If Zero Trust is about allowing only certain authorized individuals to do certain things on certain devices, you need to first know about those devices—all of them.