Cyber Defense eMagazine November Edition for 2021

they have been able to move laterally to access data and elevate privileges without any meaningful
resistance.
For this very reason, zero trust ensures that all external and internal traffic – be it emails, websites,
videos, documents or other files that originate from either inside or outside an organization – must be
verified.
Implementing zero trust: Isolation technologies
Indeed, many organizations agree that the inherent connectivity that comes with hybrid and remote
working models is creating additional areas of security consideration.
Some 75 percent of Menlo’s survey respondents stated that they believe hybrid and remote workers
accessing applications on unmanaged devices pose a significant threat to their organization’s security.
Further, almost four in five agreed that remote access by third parties is a cause for concern with more
than half planning to reduce or limit third party/contractor access to internal systems and resources over
the next year or two.
Yet such concerns could easily be addressed by the implementation of zero trust policies – given the
intensity of today’s threat environment, controlling internal and external user access has never been more
important.
That said, it can be difficult to know where to start.
What does zero trust look like? What technologies and tools are required? How can I implement it
throughout my entire organization? Here, a security specialist can be a highly valuable partner, helping
to answer many key questions and implement a zero-trust architecture that suits the specific needs and
functions of any one individual organization.
Isolation technology, for example, is one tool available that can achieve zero trust in its truest sense.
Isolation essentially moves the browsing process from the endpoint – be it a desktop, mobile device,
tablet or other – and executes it in the cloud. In this process, a form of digital air gap is created between
the internet and endpoint where all content can be rendered safely to always deliver holistic peace of
mind.
Isolation-centric zero trust therefore does not leave any room for error. Indeed, it can halt threat actors in
their path 100 percent of the time.
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