Zero Trust Model

We work on the Zero Trust Model to have an organized and strategic approach to counter internal and external threats. Zero Trust is a network security model based on a philosophy that no person or device inside or outside of an organization's network should be granted access to connect to IT systems or services until authenticated and continuously verified.

The Zero Trust model relies on strong authentication and authorization for every device and person before any access or data transfer takes place on a private network, no matter if they are inside or outside that network perimeter.

Under Zero Trust, the following concept are being covered:

  • Zero Trust Policies
  • Zero Trust Design
  • Zero Trust Environment

Benefits of Getting Zero Trust Security Mechanism

  1. Protects Financial and Qualitative information to safeguard Brand Reputation
  2. Complete monitoring and visibility of data assets
  3. Defense Mechanism to enforce security treats
  4. 100% Control on external and internal Users
  5. Provides Secure flow of data
  6. Provides Compliance based guidelines

How zero trust works

Developed by John Kindervag in 2010 while a principal analyst at Forrester Research, a zero trust architecture is a broad framework that promises effective protection of an organization's most valuable assets. It works by assuming that every connection and endpoint is considered a threat. The framework protects against these threats, whether external or internal, even for those connections already inside. In a nutshell, a zero trust network:

  • Logs and inspects all corporate network traffic
  • Limits and controls access to the network
  • Verified and secured network resources

To expand, the zero trust security model ensures data and resources are inaccessible by default.
This architecture requires a well-planned strategy and roadmap to implement and integrate security tools to achieve specific business-focused outcomes. To make a zero trust model work, adopters must:

  • Make an organization-wide commitment.
  • Catalog all IT and data assets and assign access rights based upon roles.
  • Lock down some common vulnerabilities.
  • Classify data for a data-centric approach (link resides outside of ibm.com).
  • Segment networks to prevent lateral movement (link resides outside of ibm.com), a culprit in data breaches.
  • Isolate and protect workloads during virtual machine and cloud server cross-movement.