The more an organization’s workforce spreads outward and away from a centralized location, the more blurred the lines become between internal “trusted” entities and external “untrusted” entities. In short, not every user with the right system credentials has legitimate access privileges to internal assets.
That’s why Zero Trust authentication solutions are surging in popularity. Zero Trust assumes there is no traditional network edge—that networks can be local, in the cloud, or a combination or hybrid with resources anywhere as well as workers in any location.
With a Zero Trust framework, all users and devices—whether inside or outside the organization’s network—must be authenticated and continuously validated before gaining or retaining access to applications and data. Access decisions are based on contextual attributes such as user identity, time of day, location, device type, and more.
