Companies Pursue Zero Trust, but Implementers Are Hesitant

Almost three-quarters of enterprises plan to have a zero-trust access model by the end of the year, but nearly half of cybersecurity professionals lack the knowledge to implement the right technologies, experts say.

Worried about protecting data, the likelihood of breaches, and the rise of insecure endpoint and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, companies are looking to technologies and security models that focus on continuous authentication, experts say.

On February 4, survey firm Cybersecurity Insiders published its "Zero Trust Progress Report," finding that two-thirds of surveyed cybersecurity professionals would like to continuously authenticate users and devices and force them to earn trust through verification, two foundational tenets of the zero-trust model of security. Yet while the average cybersecurity professional is confident he or she can apply the zero-trust model in their environment, a third of respondents had little confidence, and 6% were not confident at all, the report found.

Other studies have found a similar conclusion: The concept of a zero-trust architecture, now a decade old, appears ready to go mainstream, but cybersecurity professionals remain uncomfortable with its implementation, says Jeff Pollard, vice president and principal analyst with Forrester Research, the analyst firm that coined the model in 2010.

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