Cybersecurity
How to Do Business in the Age of Ransomware and Cyber-Attacks: Trust No One
- Once dismissed as crazy, ‘zero trust’ is finding new advocates
- Lawmakers, tech companies among proponents of security measure
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Researcher John Kindervag published a paper about a decade ago that argued administrators of sensitive computer networks shouldn’t trust anyone on their networks, regardless of their title.
It’s not good enough simply to try to keep bad guys out of your network, he argued. You also have to put strict limits on the people already inside, thus the shorthand for the security model: “zero trust.”