Security News > 2022 > December > Leveraging the full potential of zero trust

While progress on zero trust is strong, Zscaler found that globally only 22% of organizations are fully confident they are leveraging the full potential of their cloud infrastructure, so while organizations have made solid initial steps on their cloud journey, there is a massive opportunity to capitalize on the benefits of the cloud.

"But organizations could be more ambitious. There's an incredible opportunity for IT leaders to educate business decision-makers on zero trust as a high-value business driver, especially as they grapple with providing a new class of hybrid workplace or production environment and reliant on a range of emerging technologies, such as IoT and OT, 5G and even the metaverse. A zero trust platform can redesign business and organizational infrastructure requirements: to become a true business driver that doesn't just enable the hybrid working model employees are demanding, but enables organizations to become fully digitized, benefiting from agility, efficiency and future-proofed infrastructure."

Key recommendations for organizations to capitalize on zero trust Not all zero trust offerings are created equal: It's important to implement a true zero trust architecture built on the principle that no user or application is inherently trusted.

Zero trust as enabler of transformation and business outcomes: With its increased levels of security, visibility and control, leverage holistic a zero trust-based architecture to remove the complexity from IT operations to allow organizations to focus on gaining improved business outcomes as part of their digital transformation initiatives and remain competitive.

Zero trust for the boardroom: To align with business strategies, CIOs and CISOs should leverage the findings to help dispel fear, uncertainty and doubt around what zero trust means and to promote its full business impact with key decision makers.

Zero trust-enabled infrastructures as foundation for the future: Emerging technologies need to be looked at as a competitive business advantage and zero trust will support the secure and performant connectivity requirements of emerging trends.

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