All news with #zero trust tag

🔐 The article provides a practical, technical roadmap for eliminating passwords in hybrid Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID environments. It emphasizes the prerequisite triangle of cloud Kerberos trust, device registration, and Conditional Access, then compares architectural choices like Windows Hello for Business, FIDO2 keys, and phone sign-in. The author presents phased migration steps, common troubleshooting patterns, and recovery best practices to help organizations move securely toward Zero Trust.

🔒 Palo Alto Networks has partnered with the RAF Association to modernize its cybersecurity with a secure-by-design, zero trust architecture. The engagement consolidates legacy controls into a unified platform using Prisma SASE, Cortex XDR and Strata Cloud Manager with AIOps to improve visibility, automate operations and protect sensitive beneficiary data. The initiative prioritizes operational resilience and scalable, cost‑efficient support.

🔐 The NSA has released new Zero Trust Implementation Guidelines (ZIGs) introducing Phase One and Phase Two to help organisations progress from Discovery to target-level zero trust maturity. Phase One establishes a secure baseline with 36 activities supporting 30 capabilities, while Phase Two adds 41 activities to enable 34 additional capabilities and integrate solutions across component environments. The guidance emphasises continuous authentication and post-login evaluation, aligns with NIST SP 800-207 and other federal frameworks, and is designed as a modular, tailorable approach for skilled practitioners.

🔐 This Unit 42 analysis outlines the evolving Russian cyber threat to the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, framing Russia’s IOC exclusion as a geopolitical grievance that raises the risk of disruptive operations. It reviews historical GRU-linked campaigns against prior Games and projects plausible scenarios ranging from destructive OT malware to AI-driven deepfakes and V2X manipulation. The report recommends zero‑trust visibility, IoT anomaly detection, telemetry verification, and micro‑segmentation to reduce operational impact.

📈 The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) reports a record 3,332 US data "compromises" in 2025, a 5% rise from 2024. Despite the higher incident count, individual victims fell to 279 million from 1.4 billion, driven by the absence of large-scale "mega breaches" seen in 2023. Financial services was the hardest-hit sector with 739 compromises (22%). The ITRC warned that opaque breach notices—70% lacked attack type—undermine consumer protection and urged Zero Trust, stronger identity verification and greater transparency.

🏆 Microsoft honored partners and individuals at a Redmond ceremony on January 26, 2026, presenting the 2026 Security Excellence Awards to recognize innovation and collaboration across the security ecosystem. Winners included Avertium, BlueVoyant, Tata Consultancy Services, Illumio, Invoke LLC, and individual winner Anna Bordioug (Protiviti). Finalists were chosen by a judging panel and winners selected by Microsoft and MISA member votes, with judges spotlighting AI-driven threat intelligence and Zero Trust adoption as key drivers of improved customer security outcomes.

🛡️ Microsoft Deputy CISO for Government and Trust Tim Langan outlines a proactive approach to protecting government data, emphasizing collaboration across teams and partners. The post advocates defend forward threat hunting, the Cybersecurity Governance Council for cross-functional decision-making, and embedding security through initiatives like the Secure Future Initiative. Key focus areas include secure-by-design development, paved paths for compliance, and accelerating secure solutions for federal and defense scenarios.

🔐 In a connected business environment, the article argues that conventional perimeter controls like firewalls and intrusion-detection systems are no longer sufficient to protect organisations. It highlights how a $280 billion data-broker industry and billions of daily phishing emails create an expansive, often invisible outbound data flow that enables credible CEO fraud and targeted spear-phishing. The author recommends deploying Security & Privacy Boxes, strengthening employee training, self-hosting sensitive services and adopting a Zero Trust approach to reduce leakage and long-term APT dwell time.

🔒 Three global organizations—Ford, Icertis, and TriNet—illustrate how embedding security into every layer of the stack enables safer AI adoption and operational agility. Each moved from fragmented point solutions to a unified, Zero Trust platform built on Microsoft Security technologies such as Defender, Sentinel, Purview, Entra, and Security Copilot, using AI-powered telemetry and automation to accelerate detection and response. The result: fewer incidents, faster triage, improved compliance, and measurable cost savings that position them to scale AI responsibly.

🔐 Microsoft recommends four priorities for identity and network access in 2026: deploy fast, adaptive AI protection; manage and govern AI agents as first-class identities; unify identity and network controls into an Access Fabric; and strengthen identity foundations with phishing-resistant credentials and high-assurance recovery. The post cites Microsoft Entra capabilities and studies showing faster, more accurate admin workflows, and emphasizes applying Zero Trust to agents, networks, and devices.

🔒Gartner warns that the growing prevalence of AI-generated content could cause future LLMs to be trained on outputs from previous models, increasing risks of model degradation, hallucinations and bias. The analyst predicts up to half of organizations may adopt zero trust data governance amid rising regulatory scrutiny. Firms are urged to appoint AI governance leaders, strengthen metadata management and deploy authentication and verification controls to safeguard decision-making and financial outcomes.

🔒 Modern security must treat identity as the perimeter rather than the network. As remote work and cloud adoption dissolved traditional edges, attackers increasingly target credentials — a trend underscored by reports from Verizon, Microsoft and Okta — making identity the primary attack surface. Organizations must adopt Zero Trust identity controls such as MFA, SSO, RBAC, PAM, device trust and continuous, adaptive monitoring, and treat identity lifecycle and privilege management as core infrastructure.

🔒 As CISOs prepare for 2026, seven pragmatic projects can strengthen defenses against evolving threats. Priorities include transforming identity and access to cover human and non-human agents and reinforcing email security. Organizations should leverage AI for vulnerability discovery and security automation, enforce enterprise AI governance, adopt a zero-trust-by-default posture, and unify data governance to reduce shadow data and compliance gaps.

🔐 In a Deputy CISO post, Terrell Cox explains how Microsoft aligns privacy and security as complementary priorities, treating privacy as a human right across products from Microsoft 365 to Azure. The company enforces rigorous internal compliance—audits, cross‑functional reviews, and executive oversight—and limits data access through controls like Customer Lockbox and zero‑trust access. Microsoft highlights solutions such as Microsoft Entra, Entra ID, and Microsoft Purview to support data residency, classification, protection, and regulatory compliance.

🔒 CrowdStrike announced intent to acquire Seraphic to extend the Falcon platform into browsers and enforce security within live sessions across Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox and agentic browsers on managed and unmanaged devices. The integration promises in-session zero-trust enforcement, protection for AI interactions, randomized JavaScript engine defenses, and agentless-style controls for contractors. Combined with SGNL’s continuous authorization technology, CrowdStrike aims to deliver unified, identity-driven browser security without forcing browser replacement.

🔒 Edge-deployed rugged IoT enables real-time decision-making in defense, utilities and public safety, but operates beyond traditional IT perimeters and assumptions. Devices face harsh environments, intermittent connectivity and limited physical access, which extend exposure windows and complicate patching and monitoring. CIOs must adopt adaptive, decentralized security that blends device hardening, zero-trust networking, physical protections and offline update workflows to preserve continuity, compliance and safety.

🔒 The year 2025 tightened the regulatory landscape—DORA and NIS2 pushed many organizations to elevate cybersecurity and operational resilience. CISOs expect 2026 to remain dominated by compliance complexity, persistent cost pressures, and an acute skills shortage. Attention will shift toward Resilience by Design, software supply-chain security, and operationalizing Zero Trust for identities and machine accounts. Controlling Shadow AI and strengthening third-party risk management will also be high priorities.

🛡️ AWS has introduced a simplified onboarding Quickstart for AWS Client VPN that reduces endpoint setup to three required inputs: IPv4 CIDR, server certificate ARN, and subnet selection. The Quickstart provides pre-defined default configurations so teams can create endpoints quickly and immediately download the client configuration to connect. It is offered alongside the existing Standard Setup and is suggested automatically when a VPC is created. The workflow is available at no additional cost in Regions where Client VPN is generally available.

🔍 This contributed webinar from Zscaler Internet Access examines how today’s attacks often run “hidden in plain sight,” abusing trusted tools and developer workflows instead of delivering conventional binaries. The session covers living off the land techniques, fileless “last mile” reassembly via obfuscated HTML/JavaScript, and the risks in CI/CD and third‑party repositories. It explains how cloud‑native inspection, behavioral analysis, and zero‑trust design can restore visibility and surface relevant activity without slowing the business.

🛡️ Non-human employees — bots, AI agents, service accounts and automation scripts — are expanding enterprise attack surfaces as organizations scale AI and cloud automation. NHIs often live outside traditional IAM and frequently hold over-permissioned standing access and static credentials, making them attractive targets. The article recommends applying zero-trust, enforcing least-privilege and Just-in-Time access, and adopting ephemeral secrets and automated rotation. It highlights secrets and Privileged Access Management solutions such as KeeperPAM to centralize secrets, monitor privileged sessions, and make machine identities auditable and manageable at scale.