All news with #zero trust tag

🔐 AI adoption in the cloud is accelerating, reshaping workloads and expanding attack surfaces while introducing new risks such as prompt injection, model manipulation, and data exfiltration. Fortinet recommends a layered defense built into the Fortinet Security Fabric, combining zero trust, segmentation, web/API protection, and cloud-native posture controls to secure AI infrastructure. Complementing those controls, AI-driven operations and correlation — exemplified by Gemini 2.5 Pro integrations — filter noise, correlate cross-platform logs, and surface prioritized, actionable recommendations. Together these measures reduce mean time to detect and respond and help contain threats before they spread.

🔒 Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) combines networking and security into a unified, cloud-delivered platform designed for the realities of remote and hybrid work. With nearly half of knowledge workers operating remotely or in hybrid models and many organizations adopting cloud apps and distributed branches, traditional perimeter-based models are no longer sufficient. SASE addresses distributed access, policy consistency, and simplified management while reducing attack surface and operational complexity.

🔐According to an Accenture report, 88% of security leaders say they face significant difficulties implementing Zero Trust, and 80% cannot effectively protect cyber-physical systems. Other industry studies show mixed adoption—Gartner found 63% with full or partial strategies in 2024, while Entrust reports Germany lags at 53%. Experts point to divergent definitions, legacy systems, cultural resistance to the never trust, always verify model, poor visibility into data flows, and misaligned incentives as core obstacles; many argue the effort is strategic, lengthy, and requires top-down leadership.

🔒 Fortinet’s 4th Annual SASE Summit (NAMER: Sept 16, 2025; EMEA/LATAM/APAC: Sept 18, 2025) centers on the theme Convergence without Compromise, arguing that robust security and top performance can be delivered together through a unified, AI-driven platform. The event features Gartner VP Analyst Jonathan Forest and Fortinet leaders Nirav Shah and Jordan Thompson, along with customer case studies from Tepper Sports & Entertainment and Funke Mediengruppe. Attendees will receive practical guidance on adopting a consolidated SASE approach that embeds zero trust, AI-enabled controls, and end-to-end visibility to reduce complexity, cut costs, and better protect hybrid workforces and cloud environments.

🔒 An Accenture report finds 88% of security leaders face significant challenges implementing zero trust. Respondents point to varying definitions, broad deployment scope across on-prem, cloud, IoT and legacy systems, poor visibility into data flows and device/user state, and resistance from business units. Experts recommend phased, use-case-driven rollouts and strong executive sponsorship, while noting meaningful programs can take years and may never be fully complete.

🔐 Starting October 1, 2025, Microsoft will enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all Azure resource management actions to protect tenants from unauthorized access. The change, part of its Secure Future Initiative, will be rolled out gradually across public cloud tenants and covers Azure CLI, PowerShell, SDKs, REST APIs, IaC tools, the Azure mobile app, and automation that uses user identities. To prevent disruptions Microsoft recommends updating Azure CLI to 2.76+ and Azure PowerShell to 14.3+; global administrators may postpone enforcement until July 2026.

🔐 AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) introduces three global condition keys — aws:VpceAccount, aws:VpceOrgPaths, and aws:VpceOrgID — to enforce that requests to resources or identities originate via VPC endpoints. These keys provide account-, organization-path-, and organization-level granularity, automatically scaling as endpoints are added or removed. Use them in new or existing SCPs, RCPs, resource-based, and identity-based policies. They are supported for selected services in commercial Regions where AWS PrivateLink is available.

🔒 Amazon Verified Permissions is now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Mexico (Central), expanding regional coverage to 35 AWS Regions. The managed service provides scalable, fine-grained authorization using the open-source Cedar policy language, enabling applications to enforce permissions as policies rather than embedding them in code. Developers and administrators can define role-, attribute-, and context-aware access controls for APIs and application resources, simplifying authorization and improving governance.

🔐 At the Aspen US Cybersecurity Group Summer 2025 meeting, Wendi Whitmore urged urgent action to secure AI while defenders still retain a temporary advantage. Drawing on Unit 42 simulations that executed a full attack chain in as little as 25 minutes, she warned adversaries are evolving from automating old tactics to attacking the foundations of AI — targeting internal LLMs, training data and autonomous agents. Whitmore recommended adoption of a five-layer AI tech stack — Governance, Application, Infrastructure, Model and Data — combined with secure-by-design practices, strengthened identity and zero-trust controls, and investment in post-quantum cryptography to protect long-lived secrets and preserve resilience.

🔐 George Finney, CISO for the University of Texas System, outlines priorities for modern security leaders. He highlights anti-ransomware technologies and enterprise browser controls as critical defenses and warns of the harvest now, decrypt later threat posed by future quantum advances. Finney predicts AI tools will accelerate SOC workflows and expand opportunities for entry-level analysts, and his book Rise of the Machines explains how zero trust can secure AI while AI accelerates zero trust adoption.

🛡️ AI adoption is accelerating in enterprises, but many deployments lack the visibility, controls, and ongoing safeguards needed to manage risk. The article presents five practical rules: continuous AI discovery, contextual risk assessment, strong data protection, access controls aligned with zero trust, and continuous oversight. Together these measures help CISOs enable innovation while reducing exposure to breaches, data loss, and compliance failures.

🔒 Cloudflare has launched MCP Server Portals in Open Beta to centralize and secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) connections between large language models and application backends. The Portals provide a single gateway where administrators register MCP servers and enforce identity-driven policies such as MFA, device posture checks, and geographic restrictions. They deliver unified visibility and logging, curated least-privilege user experiences, and simplified client configuration to reduce the risk of prompt injection, supply chain attacks, and data leakage.