"The Ransomware Crime Wave Has Made Zero Trust Critical"

Due to the increase in ransomware attacks that have shaken the U.S. in recent weeks, researchers suggest that now is the time to focus on zero trust.  The idea of basing cybersecurity on a zero trust model is not a new concept, but it’s an idea whose time has arrived in a big way. The researchers stated that conventional security technologies and techniques such as firewalls and VPNs are based on barrier-centered approaches that allow certain IT environments to be protected with access granted only to trusted users who can enter those environments with secret credentials.  Zero trust proceeds from the foundational framework that no individual, no device, no application, nothing can be trusted as secure.  As cloud computing continues its rise, the researchers stated that there is growing consensus that zero trust will be the future state for security infrastructure. Zero trust architecture has been defined in the NIST Special Publication 800-207, and the framework has already been widely adopted in the US by the Department of Defense, the banking sector, the healthcare sector, and elsewhere. The researchers believe that it is likely that zero trust will grow to become the standard security model moving forward because it’s based on a strategy and not just more technology.

eWEEK reports: "The Ransomware Crime Wave Has Made Zero Trust Critical"