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What is Zero Trust?
Zero Trust is a security framework requiring all users, whether in or outside the organization’s network, to be authenticated, authorized, and continuously validated for security configuration and posture before being granted or keeping access to applications and data. Zero Trust assumes that there is no traditional network edge; networks can be local, in the cloud, or a combination or hybrid with resources anywhere as well as workers in any location.
Zero Trust is a framework for securing infrastructure and data for today’s modern digital transformation. It uniquely addresses the modern challenges of today’s business, including securing remote workers, hybrid cloud environments, and ransomware threats. While many vendors have tried to create their own definitions of Zero Trust, there are a number of standards from recognized organizations that can help you align Zero Trust with your organization.
Why Zero Trust?
Productivity Everywhere
Empower your users to work more securely anywhere and anytime, on any device.
Assume Breach
Verify end-to-end encryption and use analytics to gain visibility, detects threats and improve defenses.
Risk Mitigation
Close security gaps and minimize risk of lateral movement.
Zero Trust Defense Areas
Identities
Verify and secure each identity with strong authentication across your entire digital estate
Apps
Discover Shadow IT, Verify explicitly, assume breach, use analytics to get visibility, drive threat protection, and improve defense.
Data
Move perimeter - based protections to data - driven protection. Assumes breach and verifies each request. Encrypt and restrict access based on organizational policies.
Infrastructure
detect attacks and anomalies, automatically block and flag risky behavior, and employee least-privilege principles.
Networks
Ensure's devices and users aren't trusted just because they're on an internal network. Employe micro segmentation and real-time threat detection.
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)
SASE is a security framework that combines software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) and Zero Trust security solutions into a converged cloud-delivered platform the securely connects users, systems, endpoints, and remote networks to apps and resources
Difference between Zero Trust and SASE
SASE
The most significant difference between SASE vs. Zero Trust lies in the core components of each system. Let’s first establish the core components of SASE:
- SD-WAN service: Service connecting your network over a large distance.
- Firewall as a Service: This solution, called FWaaS, allows you to deploy your firewall through a cloud-based service.
- Secure Web Gateway: A solution that acts as a filter between a user and a website, blocking access to certain sites and helping to protect data.
- Cloud Access Security Broker: An on-site software solution that serves as the intermediary between the cloud service provider and your business.
- Zero Trust Network Access
As you see, Zero Trust is a component of SASE. However, they are not the same. The core difference between these solutions is that SASE is built upon the principles of Zero Trust but contains additional elements.
Zero Trust
Now that we have examined the components of SASE, let us look at the core elements of Zero Trust.
- Micro-segmentation: Dividing your workforce’s system access based on job duties and access needs.
- Identity verification: Continuous verification of a user’s identity as they move through the system and your data.
- Network and applications governance: The policies and systems your organization has to govern data access.
- Automation and analytics: Leveraging advanced tools like CimTrak to automate key processes, roll back unauthorized changes, and filter alerts can help save time without sacrificing security.
In short, Zero Trust is a strategy that your organization can implement without implementing SASE. However, SASE cannot be implemented without Zero Trust.
Which is Best for Your Business?
Now that you know Zero Trust and SASE work together to enhance the security and remote work capabilities, you need to decide if what is essential to your business.
If your organization does not have the time or capabilities to pursue both, you can choose Zero Trust alone. Zero Trust is simpler to implement than SASE but requires significant maintenance to keep it running smoothly.
