Security News > 2021 > January > Missing Link in a 'Zero Trust' Security Model—The Device You're Connecting With!
The reality is that the device almost always goes overlooked-and in many ways, it has become the weakest and most vulnerable link in IT security.
They make sure that all users are authenticated, their network is encrypted, and the SaaS applications are secured-but what about the device you are connecting from? Your laptop or desktop that is connecting to all your work applications and sensitive data?
To be perfectly accurate, the issue of vulnerable devices has been around a lot longer than the pandemic has; security experts and IT teams have been railing against the usage of unsanctioned, unapproved devices for years.
While working together at Palo Alto Networks in around 2015, after acquiring a leading endpoint solution company, Infinipoint-a company that offers a real-time IT security asset management platform-began to see that as crucial as these tools are to establishing zero trust, they leave out a key element, don't address the security, nor establish the trust, of the device itself.
DIaaS is the key to getting device context awareness on Single Sign-On login, across every service, in today's fragmented work environment.
Our goal is to help organizations take a truly holistic approach to the zero trust security model and lock down one of the most troublesome sources of security insufficiencies.