When zero trust falters, a team needs to be supported by a robust cloud storage infrastructure.
Zero trust is not a new concept in cybersecurity, having become popular as an alternative to traditional perimeter-based network security. The idea behind zero trust is exactly as it sounds: to create a line of defense based on limiting the amount of power any one user has through reducing their access privileges – their “trust” in the system. The thinking behind zero trust comes from the reality that protecting an organization’s data, assets and workloads has become increasingly complex. Not only have cyber attacks grown in sophistication over the years, but the variety and quantity of infrastructure that organizations have to defend has grown markedly. Today, an organization could have several internal networks, remote individuals, or remote offices with their own local infrastructure and cloud services. With this in mind, limiting the ‘attack surface’ by limiting the range of actions and data available to an individual user is essential for organizations. If teams only have access to the data that they need at any one time, the smaller the risk of a breach is – whether this be from ransomware, internal sabotage, or human error. Furthermore, limiting users’ range of access at any given time also reduces the risk of a breach undermining the rest of an organization’s data. Zero trust architectures require security teams to segment their business’s networks through employing hyper-granular access privileges for users. These privileges are automatically allocated and reallocated to various users in real time based on what assets they need to access at that time.
