Cyber Defense eMagazine February Edition for 2023

What To Expect for Zero Trust in 2023
By Jon Geater, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, RKVST
Zero trust has become a big trend in IT security.
McKinsey & Co.’s cybersecurity trends report said this about zero trust: “A ZTA shifts the focus of
cyberdefense away from the static perimeters around physical networks and toward users, assets, and
resources, thus mitigating the risk from decentralized data... Organizations should tailor the adoption of
zero-trust capabilities to the threat and risk landscape they actually face and to their business objectives.”
The federal governments in the U.K. and the U.S. have also embraced the concept of zero trust. The
U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre published guidance on how public and private organizations can
benefit from a zero trust architecture. In the U.S., NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
also issued a zero trust architecture implementation guide.
Zero trust never assumes trust. It verifies the integrity of what you are dealing with every single time. If
you’re dealing with data, zero trust ensures it’s the right data from the right source. Just because a
document is in your S3 bucket and it has the same name as one you read earlier, it doesn’t mean it is
the one you read earlier. You should check before you use it again. Be sure.
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