Security News > 2023 > January > Companies slow to “mask up” with zero trust cybersecurity protocols

Ernest Hemingway said the best way to find out if you can trust someone is to trust them.

"The primary risk addressed by zero trust is to prevent attackers from taking advantage of implicit trust," he said.

Zero trust implements many smaller perimeters around resources rather than one large perimeter, as with the traditional firewall model, but Watts noted zero trust is only one method of reducing risk.

Scope is critically important in that not everything can be put behind a set of zero trust controls.

Legacy systems such as mainframes or public facing applications for citizen and consumer usage are typically excluded from zero trust architectures.

Zero trust implementation is itself vulnerable to threats as well, such as insider attacks and account takeovers, per Watts, who said organizations must address this threat by implementing advanced analytics.

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