Incorporating Zero-Trust Strategies for Secure Network and Application Access

As businesses continue to embrace digital innovation, cloud applications, and work-from-anywhere initiatives, networks become ever more complicated and dispersed with an increasing number of “edges.” And as the traditional network perimeter continues to dissolve and the more people and devices that connect to a network, the less secure a traditional perimeter-based approach to security becomes. Every time a device or user is automatically trusted, it places an organization’s data, applications, and intellectual property at risk.

CISOs need to shift the fundamental paradigm of an open network built around inherent trust to a zero-trust model. This zero-trust strategy needs to incorporate rigorous access controls that span the distributed network so devices, users, endpoint, cloud, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and the infrastructure are all protected. Fortinet offers a tightly integrated collection of security solutions that help organizations identify and classify all users and devices that seek network and application access.