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72% of organisations plan
to implement Zero Trust
capabilities this year
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s 72% of organisations plan to
implement Zero Trust capabilities in
2020 to mitigate growing cyber-
risk, nearly half (47%) of cybersecurity
professionals lack confidence applying a
Zero Trust model to their Secure Access
architecture, according to the 2020
Zero Trust Progress Report released by
Cybersecurity Insiders and Pulse Secure, a
leading provider of software-defined Secure
Access solutions.
The report surveyed more than 400
cybersecurity decision makers to share
how enterprises are implementing Zero
Trust security in their organisation and
reveal key drivers, adoption, technologies,
investments and benefits. The report found
that Zero Trust access is moving beyond
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concept to implementation in 2020, but
there is a striking confidence divide among
cybersecurity professionals in applying Zero
Trust principles.
“Zero Trust holds the promise of vastly
enhanced usability, data protection and
governance. However, there is a healthy
degree of confusion among cybersecurity
professionals about where and how to
implement Zero Trust controls in a hybrid
IT environment – which is clearly reflected
in respondents’ split confidence levels,” said
Scott Gordon, Chief Marketing Officer at
Pulse Secure.
Of the organisations building out Zero
Trust capabilities in 2020, data protection,
trust earned through entity verification and
continuous authentication and authorisation
were cited as the most compelling tenets
of Zero Trust. The report also discovered
nearly one-third of organisations (30%) are
seeking to simplify Secure Access delivery,
including enhancing user experience and
optimising administration and provisioning.
Additionally, 53% of respondents plan to
move Zero Trust access capabilities to a
hybrid IT deployment.
More than 40% of survey respondents
expressed that vulnerable mobile and
at-risk devices, insecure partner access,
cyberattacks, over privileged employees
and shadow IT risks are top challenges to
secure access to applications and resources.
While 45% are concerned with public
cloud application access security and 43%
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