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Ivanti announced that it has been selected by the National Institute of Standards and Technology's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence to participate as a collaborator in the Implementing A Zero Trust Architecture project. The goal of the project is to build zero trust security architectures to help organizations mitigate cybersecurity risk.

Radiant Logic announced that it has been selected by the National Institute of Standards and Technology's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence to contribute critical identity capabilities to their new Zero Trust Architecture project. This week it was announced that a select group of technology collaborators, including Radiant Logic, were chosen to work with NIST's NCCoE to develop several approaches to a zero trust architecture-applied to a practical, general purpose enterprise IT infrastructure-which will be designed and built according to the concepts and tenets documented in NIST Special Publication 800-207, Zero Trust Architecture.

Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory announced its acquisition of substantially all the assets of TransientX, a Zero Trust Network Access company based in Hoboken, N.J. The deal adds TransientX's employees and its unique, dissolvable, cloud-native application networking technology for ZTNA to Deloitte's existing Zero Trust offerings and solutions. "As organizations modernize their enterprise environments to deal with evolving business models and complex, hyper-connected IT ecosystems, they're typically shifting from a perimeter-centric approach to the risk-based, Zero Trust approach that enforces the concept of least privilege," said Andrew Rafla, a Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory Zero Trust leader and principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP. "TransientX's technology offers the unique capability to embed Zero Trust Network Access into Deloitte's products and services, differentiating and evolving how we deliver our offerings to our clients - which will lend support to our clients' Zero Trust adoption efforts as well."

Appgate announced its participation in the Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture Project with the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in collaboration with other key industry partners. The goal of this project is to develop practical, interoperable approaches to designing and building zero trust architectures that align with the tenets and principles documented in NIST SP 800-207, Zero Trust Architecture.

In response to the 62% global increase in ransomware since 2019 and over 40% of manufacturing firms suffering a cyberattack last year, Onclave Networks recommends manufacturers adopt zero trust architecture and security guidelines as supported by the NSA, the Biden Administration executive order 14028 and NIST SP 800-207 Cybersecurity Framework. As manufacturers modernize their digital operations, they will connect more disparate devices and systems and transmit that data across IT networks, significantly expanding their attack surface and vulnerability to a cyberattack in the process.

Google Cloud this week announced a new set of services aimed at help federal, state, and local government organizations in the United States to implement Zero Trust architecture. A recent Biden administration Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity requires government organizations adhere to a Zero Trust approach to cybersecurity, and Google Cloud has launched three new service offerings tailored to meet those needs and to be in line with National Institute of Standards and Technology standards.

According to IDG's 2020 Security Priorities Survey, 75 percent of security-focused IT decision makers are aware of the Zero Trust model, with 18 percent actively using it in their organizations, and 10 percent piloting deployment. Zero Trust is a security concept centered on the belief that organizations should not inherently trust entities inside or outside its perimeters, and instead should verify all requests to connect to its systems before granting access.

Google Cloud today announced new zero trust offerings for government, a set of services to help U.S. federal, state, and local government organizations implement zero trust architecture in accordance with the Biden Administration's Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity and in alignment with National Institute of Standards and Technology standards. Zero Trust Assessment and Planning offering: Delivered through Google Cloud's professional services organization, the Zero Trust Assessment and Planning offering is designed to help the government reach security goals through zero trust architecture planning for core applications and data.

To help achieve progress on Zero Trust, there is now a new, easy way to implement continuous user verification by connecting directly to the authentication systems used by mobile operators - without the overhead of processing or storing user data. The Zero Trust model of identity verification essentially means never trusting that a returning user is whom they claim to be, regardless of their location or previous successful attempts.

ColorTokens launched its Xaccess product, a SaaS module within its Xtended ZeroTrust Platform, that allows its customers to provide secure zero trust access for remote employees, third parties, or contractors from distributed locations as they connect with their cloud or data center-based applications or data. Further, when combined with broader capabilities in the Xtended ZeroTrust Platform, Xaccess uniquely offers customers a single integrated solution across multiple user access needs and across cloud or hybrid applications and data stores.