Introduction

The worldwide shift to remote work has given organizations and workers more freedom and flexibility than ever before. With newfound flexibility comes an influx of varied cybersecurity risks. As more users access sensitive systems and data outside of the corporate network, traditional network perimeter-based security models are failing.

This is the moment when Zero Trust Security takes the stage. As a fresh, evolving approach to secure remote access, it doesn’t rely on perennially outdated and obsolete conceptions of trust in the context of a network. Rather than presupposing that the users inside a network are safe users, it authentically verifies all requests for access no matter where the request is issued from. Let us now understand how this overall model is important in an increasingly remote-first world