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Enterprise Management Associates and Pulse Secure report that 60% of organizations have accelerated their zero trust projects during the pandemic, while only 15% have slowed down. Pulse Secure, a provider of zero trust secure access solutions, released a report last month stating the COVID-19 pandemic has not impacted the adoption of zero trust technology globally.

Managing and securing AD and AAD with a dynamic zero trust approach is critical to success, and can help businesses improve their overall security posture to address the reality, as evidenced in other studies, that show 80 percent of breaches involve compromised or weak administrative credentials. "With 95 percent of global Fortune 1000 companies relying on Active Directory to manage their users' access, and the swift move toward Azure and cloud adoption, it becomes a natural starting point for businesses looking to implement a zero trust security model," said Bhagwat Swaroop, president and general manager, One Identity.

Sysdig announced the launch of zero trust network security for Kubernetes. With total network visibility and automated rule creation, Sysdig reduces the time to implement network security from weeks to hours.

Security firm Barracuda Networks announced on Thursday that it has acquired Fyde, a provider of Zero Trust Network Access solutions. As Barracuda explains, Fyde's Zero Trust solution "Enables secure, reliable, and fast access to cloud or on-premises applications and workloads from any device and location."

Cellusys pioneers the use of zero trust security to help their 800 million mobile phone end users combat SMS phishing and fraud. Cellusys has partnered with internet security firm MetaCert to provide an SMS security solution, using zero trust methodology to combat cyberattacks such as phishing, malware and financial fraud.

60% of organizations said they have accelerated zero trust implementation during the pandemic. The newly published report examines how enterprises are moving forward with zero trust networking initiatives, where they're being successful in doing so and how COVID-19 has affected the forward movement of those projects.

To help drive it, Citrix announced that it is expanding the Citrix Ready Workspace Security Program to include zero trust solutions from trusted and verified partners that will allow companies to simplify the selection of vendors and leverage their existing investments to design a modern security framework that delivers zero trust outcomes. In expanding the program to include solutions that integrate with these offerings and have zero trust principles built-in, Citrix is providing extended context and an additional layer of security that make an enterprise more secure.

When moving to the cloud, perimeter security is still important, but identity-based security is available to strengthen the security posture. As a result, organizations win operationally, financially, and from a security perspective, when moving to the cloud.

Saviynt announced new and expanded integration with Microsoft Azure Active Directory to provide additional advanced governance scenarios for enterprise customers. The new integration with Azure AD brings additional identity governance capabilities for Microsoft 365 and Azure IaaS using the Saviynt Cloud PAM solution.

Cloudflare on Monday announced the launch of a new zero trust platform that can help organizations address the networing and security challenges associated with an increasingly remote workforce. According to the company, the Cloudflare One platform provides a set of tools that allows users to safely and quickly connect to work applications, it enables remote workers to use the same app without the need to expose it to the public internet, and it makes personal devices more secure for business use.