What is zero trust really? Going beyond the buzzword

The offering eliminates enterprises' reliance on traditional firewalls, software-defined wide-area networks, and site-to-site virtual private networks by creating virtual islands from existing company branches, factories, and cloud environments.

The Cloud Security Alliance has released a report recommending a zero-trust approach for operational technology and industrial control systems at critical infrastructure organizations as these entities increasingly become interconnected through the cloud and Industrial Internet of Things technologies.

Aside from detailing data protection measures and data identification, definition, and categorization techniques, the guidance also emphasizes cybersecurity threats, data storage failure, and other security risks associated with data, as well as provides insights on best data practices.