We need to shift how we as security practitioners break the barriers for collective threat awareness across identity touchpoints within cybersecurity. It’s become imperative that we gain the ability to continuously assess user risk with automatic response actions—a shift towards a unified, contextually-driven identity defense.
When we think about current trends, whether that’s working from home, sprawling SaaS, or the growing use of BYOD, we are confronted by an associated increase in the complexity of the IT/security stack and its fragmentation between all the different solutions required to deliver a safe user experience. The capstone challenge is that these solutions must not just co-exist; they must work together, seamlessly and automatically, because individually they are blind to parts of the problem, but collectively they are powerful.
There are underlying challenges that no single vendor can solve to help address these obstacles for securely enabling the modern workforce. Regardless of its efficacy, no one tool can solve all of these problems, let alone see all of these problems, and as a result we need modern tools to be integrated.
Zero trust underlies everything we are doing internally at Netskope, for our customers, and with our partners; we call this idea the Power of Zero. We’re going for an extensible, open exchange ecosystem where having a ZERO (for zero trust) as the common denominator means everyone participating is infinitely more powerful, not just additively effective.
That’s why we are excited to be a strategic launch partner with Okta on the road to this collective threat awareness ecosystem, or as they’ve outlined, the Shared Signals Framework (SSF).