For years, the well-known security maxim was, “Trust but verify.” However, the statement is no longer sufficient. In today’s borderless, global, mobile, hybrid, cloud-based environment, traditional security approaches cannot defend the digital fortress on its own, and nobody is to be trusted, including employees, customers, and partners. But there is a way out. Zero Trust is an antidote for stale security strategies because it demands that organizations entirely remove trust from the equation by denying access to everyone.
