ZERO TRUST ARCHITECTURE
“Organisations need to operate with a mindset that threats exist within the boundaries of their systems ”
ROB JOYCE CYBERSECURITY DIRECTOR , NSA
vogue for almost four decades . But there is a push now to adopt ZTA , primarily because of three aspects .
“ The first is the adoption of cloud in most organisations to improve and speed up their adoption of digital transformation . The second domain , which would be apart from the outside-in domain , would be the inside-in domain . We call this lateral movement , which means attacks moving inside the organisation or emanating inside and compromising an asset inside the organisation .
“ The third dimension is the insideout ; originating inside the organisation and compromising an asset outside the organisation ’ s IT landscape .
“ We are at an inflection point , which is why the ZTA principle is getting a lot of attention because the traditional measures cater only to the first threat vector or the first type of threat manifestation while ZTA helps organisations improve their defences by bringing in the perspective of the other two threat vectors as well .”
KPMG is also an advocate for a zero trust approach . In its Global Tech Report on the government and public sector industry the company says that while government organisations have not typically been as quick as other sectors to exploit new technologies , a shift is underway . cybermagazine . com 159