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Embracing Zero Trust Architecture: A Critical

Best Practice for Cybersecurity in Enterprises

By Walt Szablowski, Founder and Executive Chairman, Eracent

Summary: With the increasing frequency and sophistication of cyberattacks in the digital landscape, and
the failure of legacy cybersecurity tools and methods, prioritization by large-scale enterprises of
cybersecurity best practices has never been more important. In particular, Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA),
has emerged as a favored security framework to the persistent cybersecurity failures. With adoption by
the U.S. Government and an increasing number of enterprise corporations, the Zero Trust cyber security
architecture attempt to turn around the current failed cybersecurity methods and tools.

Article: After 30 years of Cyber Security failures, and cyberattacks continuing to increase in frequency
and scale. The US government has made prioritizing cybersecurity Zero Trust architecture critical for
organizations, especially large-scale enterprises where the potential for loss and disruption is enormous.

To mitigate these risks, the U.S. government has ordered the adoption of Zero Trust Architecture, and
enterprise organizations are following suit. However, Gartner reports, despite rising support for this
framework, only 1 percent of organizations currently have a security program that meets the definition of

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