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• Increased visibility into lateral movements.

Threats can go unnoticed as they move laterally across networks. With the granular visibility provided by
end-to-end Zero Trust platforms, IT teams gain 360-degree visibility and control of their environments.

• Data breach prevention.

By isolating high-value assets, IT teams can restrict access to all users, services, devices, and platforms
other than those parties authorized as “need to know,” circumventing any widespread data breaches.

• Data breach resilience.

Legacy systems are often wide open to the network and lack the isolation necessary to limit a
breach. Zero Trust architecture platforms divide systems into micro-segments, building greater cyber
resilience for companies.

• Massively reduced attack surface.

Providing access to only those assets and workloads that users need creates smaller trust zones,
reducing the attack surface and restricting unauthorized lateral movements should cybercriminals gain
access.
• Greater compliance.

Isolating high-value assets alone strengthens compliance, but Zero Trust security also prevents
unauthorized access by internal and external parties, generates privacy-related regulation
documentation, and establishes a wall between development and production within an organization.

• Limited scope of compliance audit.

With segmentation being the initial step of Zero Trust security, companies limit the scope of a PCI-DSS
audit by showing evidence of segmentation across the data center, cloud providers, and business
locations.

• Mitigated risk from legacy systems.

For example, many of our manufacturing clients operate with legacy, end-of-life systems that aren't
replaceable or easy to upgrade for budget or business reasons. These outdated systems, however, are
unpatched with no support, setting the stage for cyberattacks. Securing these legacy systems quickly
and for long-term resiliency is to prevent the movement of ransomware is possible with Zero Trust.

Basic Steps of Zero Trust Implementation

Zero Trust architecture isn’t a “set-and-forget” solution to cybersecurity. As your organization begins
preparing to implement Zero Trust security, it’s important to keep in mind the following:

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