Security News > 2022 > May > Zero trust is more than just vendors and products – it requires process

With the attack surface expanding and cyberthreats growing in number and complexity, many organizations are sorting through a cybersecurity space that has myriad vendors and products to choose from, according to Chad Dunn, vice president for product management for Dell's Apex as-a-service business.

Zero trust - which essentially dictates that any person or device trying to access the network should not be trusted and needs to go through a strict authentication and verification process - will be foundational for companies moving forward, but it has to be more than simply buying and deploying products, Dunn told The Register in an interview here in Las Vegas at the Dell Technologies World show.

In March, the Cloud Security Alliance created the Zero Trust Advancement Center led by the likes of Zscaler, CrowdStrike, and Okta to help make sense of the growing numbers of zero-trust products and approaches coming to market by establishing standards, certifications, and best practices.

Dell is making data protection products available via both Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, and enabling many of these to run in colocation facilities operated by the likes of Equinix, Digital Realty, and Switch.

Many enterprises embracing zero trust are putting an emphasis on infrastructure services providers like the colocation companies, Dunn said.

"The way that technology is moving in terms of the power consumption and the heat dissipation because of processors - more and more usage of GPUs - it's going to get very expensive to have a datacenter. To get any reasonable density, you're going to have to start looking at things like water cooling and more and more power to each tile. Some datacenters just can't support it."

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