Security News > 2020 > August > In reality, how important is zero trust?

Although most IT and security professionals think of zero trust as an important part of their cybersecurity approach, many still have a long way to go on their quest to deploying it, according to Illumio.

Especially as users continue to move off campus networks to a distributed work-from-home model and face new and expanding threat vectors, organizations must quickly adopt the zero trust security mindset of "Never trust, always verify" to mitigate the spread of breaches by limiting access and preventing lateral movement.

Of the respondents who find zero trust to be extremely or very important to their security posture, only 19 percent have fully implemented or widely implemented their zero trust plan.

No single product or solution enables organizations to achieve zero trust alone, so Illumio asked which technologies companies have implemented on their journey to achieve zero trust.

Still, 32 percent of respondents have adopted campus-wide segmentation, another 30 percent have incorporated software-defined perimeter technologies, and 26 percent are leveraging micro-segmentation, a key zero trust technology for preventing the lateral movement of attackers.

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