Security News > 2020 > August > Zero trust is critical, but very underused

Organizations must quickly adopt the zero trust mindset of "Never trust, always verify" to mitigate the spread of breaches, limit access, and prevent lateral movement, according to an Illumio report.

Today, a new report from microsegmentation platform Illumio, revealed how organizations approach and incorporate zero trust into business and cybersecurity strategies, as everyone moves deeper into the second half of the new business normal, under COVID-19 restrictions.

Only 19% of respondents who said ZT was "Extremely" or "Very important" to their security have fully or widely implemented a zero trust plan, but more than 25% have begun their zero trust planning or deployment process.

Ideally, a security team's dream is to achieve and maintain zero trust security, in which both inside or outside of the network no one is trusted by default.

During the next six months, 23% of organizations plan to implement MFA and 18% plan to deploy SSO. After the next six months, most respondents said they will implement microsegmentation and SDP to pave the way for zero trust adoption at scale and 51% said they will deploy microsegmentation as a primary zero trust control, citing its effectiveness and importance in preventing high-profile breaches as it stops the lateral movement.

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