Trust is an operational necessity. The traditional perimeter-based security model, once sufficient, now crumbles in the face of cloud sprawl, IoT proliferation, and remote work. Attackers can exploit authenticated identities and move laterally inside the network perimeter undetected. Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) demands that no entity, internal or external, is trusted by default. Without immediate movement toward ZTA, enterprises face not only skyrocketing breach risks, which can cost over four million per incident on average, but also long-term erosion of customer and stakeholder confidence.
What Must Change First
These are some of the critical pressure points where strategy, technology, and execution must come together to lay the groundwork for Zero Trust success.
- Dynamic identity authentication. Use authentication methods that evolve based on user behaviour, location, device, and time. Move from static one-time authentication to continuous, multifactor, behaviour-based authentication. Leverage biometric, contextual, and behavioural signals …