The biggest fundamental shift in the era of digital transformation is that data is no longer on a CPU that the enterprise owns. Security teams focused on cloud must invest in the right technology to achieve more complete data protection, and we all need to ensure Zero Trust principles are applied everywhere data needs protection.
At Netskope, we describe this as Zero Trust Data Protection.
In its simplest form, Zero Trust means: Don’t trust the things you do not need to trust. For the things you must trust, trust, but verify constantly.
Today there are many isolated Zero Trust projects focused on networks, users, devices, or isolating servers. The main miss on most of these projects, like deploying only Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), is that they are not focused on the data. Data is the grand strategy for security teams protecting the core digital assets of any organization.
As one of the more familiar Zero Trust concepts, ZTNA describes application-level access that enables specific users to acc