Zero trust demands a multi-year commitment that incorporates existing and new solutions across the six technology pillars. Leaders have been investing in ZT to:
- Become more proactive in risk management.
- Establish security as a source of differentiation and advantage.
- Conserve scarce security resources.
- Improve business efficiency.
Contributors to this report identified these four linked objectives as key drivers for ZT interest and investment. Most agree that CISOs are looking to zero trust as a means of moving beyond a security approach designed primarily to react to vulnerabilities and threats, toward a more proactive approach to delivering IT security. Some also see ZT as a framework that enables optimization of scarce resources, reducing the number of deployed controls, tools, and vendors, and gaining corresponding staff time savings.
A number of CISOs connect zero trust to business outcomes as well. Some believe that ZT will help their firms drive competitive advantage in areas like scale, speed to market, and customer confidence, while others think ZT will enable business efficiencies. By aligning ZT strategy with one or more of these drivers, CISOs can build support for ZT in discussions with both executives and IT/security team members.
Click here to access the Stratascale Executive Guide to Zero Trust report, “Zero Trust Interest and Investment Drivers”
