Real world ‘Zero Trust’ – Where to start, How to Sustain, What to measure for success.

Strategic Relevance: In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, characterized by digital transformation, cloud services, and hybrid work, the enterprise environment has become complex and challenging to secure. Trust boundaries have blurred, rendering traditional perimeter-driven defense inadequate. The shift from “trust, but verify” to “never trust, always verify” is embodied in the principle of zero trust. With trends like digital transformation and hybrid work, organizations need to adopt a zero-trust approach to effectively protect against rising attack vectors.

Challenges & Opportunities:

Challenges:

  • Scope: Implementing zero trust beyond the network is complex and time-consuming.
  • Complexity: Zero trust involves multiple policies, technologies, and solutions for security.
  • Productivity Impact: Balancing access restrictions with productivity is a challenge.

Opportunities:

  • Modern Workplace Enablement: Zero trust promotes secure and flexible access.
  • Risk Reduction: Zero trust enhances threat detection and response.
  • Business Agility: Zero trust supports innovation and integration with partners.

Future Trends

  • Zero trust will serve as the foundation for more hybrid cloud integrations.
  • The demand for endpoint security visibility and control is growing rapidly.
  • There will be an increased focus on improving identity and access management.

Best Practices & Key takeaways

  • Secure the rapidly changing network perimeter by implementing a zero trust approach that minimizes access and actively monitors for risky behavior.
  • Support remote and hybrid work by enabling secure access from any device, anytime, and anywhere.
  • Improve the employee experience by simplifying access through single sign-on (SSO) or biometrics, reducing the reliance on multiple passwords, and supporting a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) model.
Ninad Varadkar
Group Chief information Security Officer
Edelweiss Financial Services Limited

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this feature article are of the author. This is not meant to be an advisory to purchase or invest in products, services or solutions of a particular type or, those promoted and sold by a particular company, their legal subsidiary in India or their channel partners. No warranty or any other liability is either expressed or implied.
Reproduction or Copying in part or whole is not permitted unless approved by author.

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

Latest Articles

Sign Up for CXO Digital Pulse Newsletters

Sign Up for CXO Digital Pulse Newsletters to Download the Research Report

Sign Up for CXO Digital Pulse Newsletters to Download the Coffee Table Book

Sign Up for CXO Digital Pulse Newsletters to Download the Vision 2023 Research Report

Download 8 Key Insights for Manufacturing for 2023 Report

Sign Up for CISO Handbook 2023

Download India’s Cybersecurity Outlook 2023 Report

Unlock Exclusive Insights: Access the article

Download CIO VISION 2024 Report

Share your details to download the report

Share your details to download the CISO Handbook 2024