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of respondents expressed Bring Your Own
Device (BYOD) enablement issues, more
than 70% of organisations are looking
to advance their identity and access
management capabilities.
Workforce mobility and hybrid IT models
have placed most workloads beyond the
shelter of corporate networks and traditional
perimeter defence – which creates
significant user access and data concerns.
Secure Access infrastructure with Software-
Defined Perimeter (SDP) technology (aka
Zero Trust Network Access – ZTNA).
“Organisations interested in exploring ZTNA
should seek a solution that works in parallel
with a perimeter-based VPN to gain essential
operational flexibility for enterprises and
service providers supporting data centre and
multi-cloud environments,” said Gordon.
The 2020 Zero Trust Progress Report revealed
nearly a third of cybersecurity professionals
expressed value in applying Zero Trust to
address hybrid IT security issues. Of the respondents considering SDP,
a majority (53%) would require a hybrid IT
deployment and a quarter (25%)
would adopt an SaaS (Software-as-a-
Service) implementation.
The report highlighted that a quarter of
organisations seek to augment their current “Some organisations are hesitant to
implement Zero Trust as SaaS because they
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might have legacy applications that will
either delay, or prevent, cloud deployment.
Others might have greater data protection
obligations, where they are averse to having
controls and other sensitive information
leaving their premises, or they have a
material investment in their data centre
infrastructure that meets their needs,”
said Holger Schulze, Founder and CEO of
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