The State of Zero Trust Transformation 2023 report by Zscaler has shown that IT leaders see zero trust as the ideal framework for securing enterprise users, workloads and IoT/OT environments in a highly distributed cloud and mobile-centric world.
Zero trust, if approached from a holistic IT perspective, has the potential to unlock business opportunities across the overall digitization process, from driving increased innovation to supporting better employee engagement or delivering tangible cost efficiencies.
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“The state of zero trust transformation within organisations today is promising – implementation rates are strong,” Zscaler VP of Emerging Tech, 5G Nathan Howe said.
“But organisations could be more ambitious.”
“There’s an incredible opportunity for IT leaders to educate business decision-makers on zero trust as a high-value business driver, especially as they grapple with providing a new class of hybrid workplace or production environment and reliant on a range of emerging technologies, such as IoT and OT, 5G and even the metaverse.”
Aussie IT leaders believed that privacy concerns are the biggest obstacle to realizing the full potential of cloud computing and that secure cloud transformation cannot be achieved with a legacy network security infrastructure.
Additionally, nearly half of the respondents agree that Zero Trust network access is more effective than traditional firewalls and VPNs for securing remote access to applications.
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As such, Zscaler makes four key recommendations for organisations to capitalise on zero trust:
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