Key Takeaways From The State Of Zero Trust Report
Fortinet News, Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Even though the zero-trust security model has been around for more than a decade, it has received more attention because today's networks are more distributed and need to be able to support a hybrid work-from-anywhere workforce.
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the sudden need to support remote employees, it quickly became apparent that traditional VPNs were not up to the task and the best approach for managing and securing users with no permanent location was to initiate a zero-trust strategy. With zero trust, anything or anyone trying to connect to the network is assumed to be a potential threat. And every user must be verified before permission to access resources is granted.