The relationship between zero trust and user identity and the potential vulnerabilities that can arise from solely focusing on identity.
What is the relationship between zero trust and user identity? There’s no doubt that identity is a fundamental component of an effective zero trust approach, but there is also a danger that organisations become so overly focused on this one element, they forget there are others. To believe that achieving zero trust is all about user identity is, I believe, a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept.
This misconception can lead to potential vulnerabilities that, in turn, can result in major cyber security events – the kind of events that the organisation was attempting to avoid by adopting zero trust in the first place.Identity is indeed a fundamental factor of zero trust and, for many years, companies have used multi-factor authentication (MFA) to ensure their sensitive data is protected. However, the threat landscape is evolving and some experts now estimate that up to 70% of MFA options are as easy to breach with social engineering and phishin
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