The cybersecurity world’s favorite catchphrase isn’t any one product or system, but a holistic approach to minimizing damage.
FOR YEARS A concept known as “zero trust” has been a go-to cybersecurity catchphrase, so much so that even the notoriously dilatory federal IT apparatus is going all in. But a crucial barrier to widespread adoption of this next-generation security model is mass confusion over what the term actually means. With cyberattacks like phishing, ransomware, and business email compromise at all time highs, though, something’s gotta change, and soon.