Security News > 2022 > June > Zero trust segmentation eliminates 5 cyber disasters per year and saves $20+ million annually

Illumio released The Zero Trust Impact Report, a research on market perspectives of zero trust strategies and the business impact of segmentation technology.

Zero trust is now the standard: 90 percent state that advancing zero trust strategies is one of their top three security priorities this year as a way to improve cyber resiliency and reduce the rising threat of attacks turning into disasters.

Segmentation is a critical pillar of every zero trust strategy: 75 percent of segmentation pioneers, those who are classified as advanced users, believe purpose-built segmentation tools are critical to zero trust and 81 percent say segmentation is an important technology to zero trust.

Zero trust segmentation has a quantifiable business impact: Organizations that have adopted zero trust segmentation as part of their zero trust strategy save an average of $20.1 million in application downtime, avert 5 cyber disasters per year, and plan to accelerate 14 more digital and cloud transformation projects over the next year.

"Catastrophic breaches keep happening despite another year of record cybersecurity spending. Money will not make the problem go away until security leaders move beyond the legacy approach to only focus on detection and perimeter protection," said PJ Kirner, Illumio CTO. "I'm shocked that nearly half of those surveyed in the Zero Trust Impact Report do not think a breach is inevitable, which is the guiding principle for zero trust, but I am encouraged by the hard business returns zero trust and segmentation deliver. Zero trust segmentation is emerging as a true market category that is transforming business operations and strengthening cyber resiliency."

You cannot achieve zero trust without zero trust segmentation.

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