| |MAY 20228WHY DATA BACKUP & RECOVERY NEED TO BE PART OF YOUR ZERO TRUST SECURITY PROGRAMBy Christos Karmis, President & CEO, MobilitieHolding an MBA from the Warrington College of Business, Christos has been associated with Mobilitie for over 15 years now, prior to which he was the Telecommunications Consultant at Deloitte Consulting.or years, the well-known security maxim was, `Trust but verify'. However, the statement is no longer sufficient. In today's borderless, global, mobile, hybrid, cloud-based environment, traditional security approaches cannot defend the digital fortress on its own, and nobody is to be trusted, including employees, customers, and partners. But there is a way out. Zero Trust is an antidote for stale security strategies because it demands that organizations entirely remove trust from the equation by denying access to everyone.Zero Trust is all about evaluating the security posture of users based on location, device, and behaviour to determine if the users are who they claim to be. Zero Trust is also about granting just enough privilege, just in time, so that users can perform their needed tasks and operations, and nothing more. With Zero Trust, only minimum permissions are granted at just the right time to get a job done. Then those permissions are revoked immediately upon completion of the job or transaction. A Zero Trust security approach authenticates and authorizes every connection ­ for example, when a user connects to an application or FExpert OpinionChristos Karmis, President & CEO
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