WEBINAR: The Four Stages of Zero Trust Maturity

Executive orders and guidance from leading organizations like the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have made it clear: Zero Trust is the cybersecurity strategy for now and the future. The private sector is following suit with 78% of responding organizations planning to enhance their Zero Trust efforts, according to a study by Forrester. How should you proceed?

Jason Garbis, author of Zero Trust Security: An Enterprise Guide, and Jim Anthony, cybersecurity systems strategist, bring expert insights to this SecurityWeek on-demand webcast replay on “The Four Stages of Zero Trust Maturity”:

• Stage Zero: Identify where you are and where to start your Zero Trust journey
• Stage One: Put basic Zero Trust principles in place to show immediate value
• Stage Two: Leverage context and risk to enhance security posture
• Stage Three: Unlock the potential of adaptive Zero Trust

Watch the replay below to learn:

• Why you should detach from the Zero Trust security marketing hype to understand its overarching framework and true operational impact of securing connections for all users, devices and workloads
• Details on the four Zero Trust maturity stages and how your organization might interpret them based on your use cases
• How fully adopting Zero Trust security principles goes well beyond secure remote access to safeguarding all user-to-resources and resource-to-resource connections

Takeaways from the webinar

Also according to the Forrester survey cited above, most organizations are still early in their Zero Trust journey, working to develop a Zero Trust strategy and architecture (24%) or Zero Trust business strategy (23%). As you plan your Zero Trust security strategy, Jim and Jason have a few things to keep in mind:

• You don’t have to start from scratch. The good news is, unless you’re a startup company that hasn’t taken its first step yet, you can start your Zero Trust security journey with the tools you already have.
• Always have the end in mind: Beyond remote access, consider web apps, API integrations and all of the user-to-resource and resource-to-resource connections you will want to secure across your entire IT ecosystem as you build your Zero Trust security strategy.
• Café-style network is the way to go. This is quickly entering buzzword status, much like Zero Trust itself. Here’s how Jim explained it and why it’s a good strategy: The idea is that a user on a corporate device that is on-premises and plugged into the local area network has the same experience as if they were at a coffee shop. Corporate networks can be compromised and should therefore be secured at the same level we’d expect of remote users on home or public networks.

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