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CrowdStrike announced it has agreed to acquire Preempt Security, provider of zero trust and conditional access technology for real-time access control and threat prevention. Together, CrowdStrike and Preempt will provide a modern zero trust security architecture and threat protection to keep organizations' users, endpoints, and data safe from modern attacks, without compromising productivity or the user experience.

CrowdStrike on Wednesday announced that it has agreed to acquire Preempt Security, a provider of Zero Trust and access control technology, in a deal valued at roughly $96 million. CrowdStrike plans integrate Preempt's technology into the CrowdStrike Falcon platform to help customers achieve end-to-end visibility and enforcement on identity data.

Checking users, applications, and devices on your network are just a few ways to keep your company safe from cyberattacks. Tom Merritt lists five things to know about zero trust ops.

Checking users, applications, and devices on your network are just a few ways to keep your company safe from cyberattacks. Tom Merritt lists five things to know about zero trust ops.

Fully aligned with SASE's edge-based security approach, the Zero Trust security construct can be executed using the SASE framework. To understand how SASE is an approach that enables a Zero Trust security model, we'll dig a little deeper into Gartner's vision.

CISOs at Stanford University, the University of Chicago Medicine, and The Ohio State University list phishing as the top security threat to students, professors, and researchers. The group also agreed zero trust is the best security approach but a hard sell in an academic setting.

Although most IT and security professionals think of zero trust as an important part of their cybersecurity approach, many still have a long way to go on their quest to deploying it, according to Illumio. Especially as users continue to move off campus networks to a distributed work-from-home model and face new and expanding threat vectors, organizations must quickly adopt the zero trust security mindset of "Never trust, always verify" to mitigate the spread of breaches by limiting access and preventing lateral movement.

Organizations must quickly adopt the zero trust mindset of "Never trust, always verify" to mitigate the spread of breaches, limit access, and prevent lateral movement, according to an Illumio report. Today, a new report from microsegmentation platform Illumio, revealed how organizations approach and incorporate zero trust into business and cybersecurity strategies, as everyone moves deeper into the second half of the new business normal, under COVID-19 restrictions.

Pulse Secure announced the launch of Pulse Zero Trust Access, a cloud-based, multi-tenant secure access service that enables organizations to provide users easy, anywhere access to multi-cloud and data center applications with Zero Trust assurance. Pulse Zero Trust Access offers users streamlined application access while allowing organizations to govern every request by automatically verifying identity, device and security posture before granting a direct, encrypted connection between that user's device and applications residing in public clouds, private clouds or data centers.

The adoption of mobile and cloud, and the coronavirus pandemic forcing people to work from home, shows you can no longer rely on computer security based on a simple network perimeter. There is no silver bullet in achieving a zero-trust architecture.