Security News > 2020 > December > COVID-19 has not slowed global zero trust implementations
Enterprise Management Associates and Pulse Secure report that 60% of organizations have accelerated their zero trust projects during the pandemic, while only 15% have slowed down.
Pulse Secure, a provider of zero trust secure access solutions, released a report last month stating the COVID-19 pandemic has not impacted the adoption of zero trust technology globally.
I spoke with industry experts Mike Riemer, global chief technology officer of Ivanti, an IT asset and service management software provider, and Amit Bareket, co-founder and CEO of SaaS provider Perimeter 81, to learn more about zero trust.
To mitigate on-going unauthorized access, malware and data breach risks, organizations are accelerating the coordination of security controls that enable the zero trust tenets of user and device and security posture verification and applying condition access based on continuous risk assessment.
Amit Bareket: There is a common misunderstanding that zero trust is both costly and complicated to implement, but as more businesses are moving their infrastructures to the cloud, it has become easier to take advantage of the benefits of zero trust.