don't trust anyone’: cybersecurity solution part of the premise IO TRUST everything and everyone’

For every ten data breaches, seven (68%) involved a non-malicious human element, such as a person who was a victim of an attack, a 2024 Verizon Business report points out.This figure shows that employees believe their corporate networks are protected against fraud and attacks, and it is precisely this false sense of security that the Zero Trust strategy, or Zero Trust, seeks to combat.

To understand the concept, first one must recognize the problem it aims to solve: excessive trust in corporate networks”, explains Luiz Wagner Grilo, responsible for the business unit of network & cybersecurity da Unentel, distributor of technological solutions for companies. 

The “ premisebe suspicious of everything and everyone” aims to ensure that every access, whether internal or external, is authenticated and monitored. According to Gartner estimates, 63% of companies worldwide already adopt Zero Trust, either partially or fully.For 78% of these organizations, this strategy represents up to 25% of the total budget allocated to cybersecurity.

The concept emerged in 2010 with the proposal to complement the already traditional VPNs (virtual private networks, virtual private networks, in free translation) through the combination of administrative controls. Grilo also highlights that, unlike traditional approaches, which segment the network into zones with different levels of trust, Zero Trust assumes that no entity, whether internal or external, is trusted by default.

“Zero Trust, in addition to being a technological architecture, it is a change of organizational mentality that redefines the way security controls are implemented. Unlike what many believe, it is not just a cybersecurity solution, but a new culture to correct failures in” systems, analyzes the expert in network & cybersecurity.

With the accelerated advancement of Cloud Services adoption, Check Point's Global Cloud Security Report 2024 revealed a significant jump in the number of enterprises concerned about enterprise protection, from 24% in 2023 to 61% in 2024 154% growth. 

However, by adopting Zero Trust, organizations and their IT teams need to understand that this is an ongoing process, not a point of arrival.“A journey toward zero trust evolves as several factors change, such as company needs, the growth of network use through applications, platforms and new technologies, the evolution of connected devices, user profiles and emerging threats that demand new security solutions implemented by the team in charge of”.