Giant leaps, small steps
It’s an unfortunate fact that no security firm came up with a silver bullet to protect endpoints, the cloud, networks, IoT and mobile devices from cyberattack, but that doesn’t mean there were no technological advances made.SC Media reached out to several industry insiders to see which 2019 advances they thought deserved mention.
Zero Trust
Kevin Sheu, vice president at Vectra, brought up that the concept of zero trust has not only has grown significantly in the last couple of years but reached a critical mass 2019. A zero-trust architecture fundamentally distrusts all entities in a network and does not allow any access to resources until an entity has been authenticated and authorized to use that specific resource, i.e. trusted. This new paradigm requires better user and device authentication methods as well as micro-segmentation of networks. But equally important is the use of advanced machine learning techniques to observe and score the privilege of an entity based on the behaviors that entity performs on the network. This is known as Privileged Access Analytics. The unique combination of machine learning and the network are…
