An Executive Guide to Zero Trust: Drivers, Objectives, and Strategic Considerations

An Executive Guide to Zero Trust:Drivers, Objectives, and Strategic Considerations When enterprises moved to the cloud, they put infrastructure provisioning in the hands of engineering teams.Contents

Executive SummaryZero Trust (ZT) defines security principles for the digital world. An approach predicated on hardening the corporate network—the concept driving cybersecurity investment for the past 50 years—doesn’t work in an environment where mobility, cloud, and extensive connections between suppliers and customers render the concept of “perimeter” obsolete. CISOs are, or soon will be, organizing strategy around key intellectual property (IP) assets such as data and the identity processes that grant access to and across core IT/ZT pillars, including devices, network, infrastructure, and applications.