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Zero Trust Architecture: Adoption, Benefits,
and Best Practices
What is Zero Trust security, and what are the benefits? Here's how to prevent data breaches by staying
on top of security with Zero Trust architecture.
By Harish Akali, Chief Technology Officer, ColorTokens
'Trust Nothing, Verify Everything': Benefits and Best Practices of Zero Trust Architecture
No matter the industry or size, organizations have been embracing digital transformation at an
astonishing pace. Necessarily, the cybersecurity industry is seeing a shift that many argue is long
overdue. This is best described as a paradigm shift from reactive to proactive security that assumes the
bad guys will get in. This is also the paradigm of Zero Trust architecture, which is built to stop the bad
guys in their tracks from the inside out if need be.
Businesses today are essentially massively interconnected attack surfaces. Meanwhile, the maximization
of telework and cloud computing are supersizing the number of attack vectors. Enterprise networks with
traditional security have become a playground for bad actors, who rely on taking advantage of any
processes, access, or traffic that are “trusted” to stay undetected. This is where Zero Trust
architecture comes into play with its credo of “trust nothing; verify everything.”
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