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Many businesses believe limiting insider access will double efficacy of protections
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Arguing that a rise inremote workhave left businesses more vulnerable tocybersecurityattacks likeransomware, a new report suggests that deploying azero trust architectureis expected to double the efficacy of cybersecurity protections against a range of threats.
Conducted by Symmetry Systems, the report surveyed 125 IT and security decision-makers in midsize and large organizations, and found businesses anticipate zero-trust architecture will increase their ability to stopdata breachesby 144%.
Interestingly, the two lowest anticipated increases with zero-trust are preventing ransomware (83% increase) and identifying vulnerabilities that attackers could target (78% increase), though Symmetry System notes that these increases are significant too.
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Brain trust
According to the report, most businesses look at zero trust to strengthen cybersecurity protections primarily focused on internal matters, such as identity and access management (IAM) and application access management for employees, and internally-facing applications.
In fact, by limiting an insiders’ scope of access to sensitive corporate data, the respondents expected the efficacy of their protections againstinsider threatsto double.
However, the report also found that businesses don’t look at zero trust as an answer to all threats.
“On average, there is still a 40% to 50% gap left between the anticipated future state with zero trust and a robust set of complete cybersecurity protections. Respondents expect zero trust to make a significant contribution to reducing the scope of threats (as it should), but do not expect it to completely mitigate every threat alone (as it cannot),”findsthe report.
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