Security News > 2021 > December > Cybersecurity: Organizations face key obstacles in adopting zero trust
To compile its new "Zero Trust and IT Security" report, One Identity commissioned Dimensional Research to conduct a survey of 1,009 IT security professionals to get their opinions on adoption and experiences with zero trust security.
Just 8% reported no plans to set up zero trust, while 2% didn't know what zero trust meant.
The two most common barriers were a lack of clarity around how zero trust should be implemented and the requirement of zero trust for ongoing identity and access management, each listed by 32%. The third and fourth reasons were the fact that zero trust security models impact employee productivity and that security staffers are too busy and have other priorities, each cited by 31%. Other obstacles to kicking off a zero trust initiative were a lack of resources or budget, the challenges in predicting the benefits and building a business use case, the tendency of zero trust to create a siloed approach, and the lack of access to zero trust technology.
"To overcome the primary barriers, organizations need to begin thinking more holistically about Zero Trust by taking a unified approach to identity security," said Larry Chinski, VP of global IAM strategy at One Identity.
"Overall, the key to successful implementation and deployment of zero trust is to focus on the overall concept of never trust, always verify," Chinski added.
"Third-party sources such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology developed standards for Zero Trust implementation based on this concept, allowing organizations to weave zero trust models into their overall strategy. Looking at zero trust in a holistic way is a key to helping organizations most effectively implement a ZT architecture."