{"id":50920,"date":"2023-03-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/3247848\/what-is-zero-trust-a-model-for-more-effective-security.html#tk.rss_security"},"modified":"2023-03-07T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T10:00:00","slug":"what-is-zero-trust-a-model-for-more-effective-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/what-is-zero-trust-a-model-for-more-effective-security\/","title":{"rendered":"What is zero trust? A model for more effective security"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Security leaders are embracing zero trust, with the vast majority of organizations either implementing or planning to adopt the strategy. The 2022 State of Zero-Trust Security<\/a> report found that 97% of those surveyed either have or plan to have a zero-trust initiative in place within 18 months.<\/p>\n

In fact, the percentage of organizations with zero trust already in place more than doubled in just one year, jumping from 24% in 2021 to 55% in the 2022 survey issued by identity and access management technology provider Okta.<\/p>\n

And that 55% is more than three times the figure it was four years ago; when Okta first asked security leaders whether they had a zero-trust initiative in place or were planning one within the following 18 months for its 2018 report, only 16% answered yes.<\/p>\n

The growing use of zero trust mirrors the increasing security challenges faced by enterprise leaders. Organizations have seen their attack surfaces grow, especially as they have enabled widescale remote work policies and extended the number of endpoint devices residing outside corporate walls. At the same time, the volume and velocity of cyberattacks have skyrocketed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe technology landscape is evolving, and as organizations adopted cloud and with more mobile devices and more bring-your-own devices, remote and hybrid work, and adversaries becoming more sophisticated, it all led to changes in the threat landscape. As a result, the old security model is no longer scalable,\u201d says Imran Umar, who as a senior cyber solution architect at Booz Allen Hamilton spearheads zero-trust initiatives in support of the US Department of Defense, federal civilian agencies, and the intelligence community.<\/p>\n

The old perimeter security model is dead<\/h2>\n

That old security model focused on perimeter defenses, an approach that earned comparisons to creating a moat around the castle, working to keep out dangers while allowing everyone and everything within the castle walls to move around with few, if any, impediments.<\/p>\n