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have placed most workloads beyond the shelter of corporate networks and traditional perimeter defense.
This creates significant user access and data concerns.

The 2020 Zero Trust Progress Report by Pulse Secure revealed that nearly a third of cybersecurity
professionals have expressed value in applying Zero Trust to address hybrid IT security issues. This
report, which surveyed more than 400 cyber security decision makers, found that 72% of organizations
plan to assess or implement Zero Trust capabilities in some capacity in 2020 to mitigate growing cyber
risk, while nearly half (47%) of cyber security professionals lack confidence applying a Zero Trust model
to their Secure Access architecture.

With its principle of user, device and infrastructure verification before granting conditional access based
on least privilege, Zero Trust holds the promise of vastly enhanced usability, data protection and
governance and must be part of any security architecture as we navigate the current COVID-19 business
landscape.”

Telemedicine and Remote Field Offices are Changing the Needs of Healthcare Professionals

“Healthcare is going the way of other industries with employees being asked to work remotely and post
COVID-19, we believe the use of telemedicine and remote field offices will be the new normal in
healthcare.

As such, IT teams must provide healthcare workers with mobile devices that are protected, even on
expanded Wi-Fi networks or cellular networks as employees are often working outside secure networks,
opening their mobile devices to additional threats.

Increasing remote capacity on network protections such as VPNs, extends security to those workers in
the field, ensuring that both patient information as well as other personal information stored on those
devices is safe. By deploying Zero Trust policies, info security teams can also implement fine-tuned user
access management to ensure that network capacity is maximized and that workers only have access to
the information that’s absolutely necessary.”

About the Author

Mike Riemer is the Global Chief Security Architect for Pulse Secure, where
he has worked for the last six years. He has over 37 years of IT and IT
Security experience and is a Certified Instructor on Firewall/Virtual Private

Networking, Intrusion Detection/Prevention, SSL/VPN and Network Access
Control disciplines. He previously spent 25 years with the U.S. Air Force
working in Cyber Security and Intelligence.

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