Strategic Roadmap for Zero Trust Security Program Implementation
Gartner zero trust findings
Zero trust security architectures replace legacy security architectures' implicit and static trust models with dynamic and explicit trust models. Security and risk management leaders must establish a clear roadmap for a zero trust program to optimize their organization's risk posture.
Intention outlook
Organizations in North America and increasingly other regions strongly desire to adopt a zero trust security paradigm to reduce risk to their organization.
However, they have difficulty translating this desire into an actionable strategy with a roadmap, projects, and measurable outcomes.
Intention outlook
Zero trust principles
Vendors are heavily marketing "zero trust" as a way to buy improved security for organizations, but zero trust is not a technology.
A zero trust paradigm regroups and emphasizes a set of cybersecurity principles that can be implemented across various technologies to address specific risks to an organization.
Zero trust principles
Common roadblocks
Common roadblocks include legacy technology, scalability, integration and capability gaps in zero trust technology implementations, organizational resistance, and failure to consider business process impact.
Common roadblocks
Discover if you can really trust that your data is secure
When dealing with classified or personally identifiable information (PII), a data breach can be catastrophic. Zero trust security models can help reduce this risk.
In this Gartner report, you'll learn how to develop and implement a zero trust strategy for your organization.
Download the complimentary report to discover:
- What can hinder your zero trust implementation
- How to build a strategic roadmap for your zero trust future state
- Suggested steps and timeline for a zero trust journey
- Core technologies in a zero trust architecture
- Roadblocks to zero trust adoption
Gartner, 2023 Strategic Roadmap for Zero Trust Security Program Implementation, 13 April 2023, John Watts, et. Al.
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