All news with #zero trust tag

🔒 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.

🔒 As enterprises deploy AI agents, expand cloud use, and rely on complex global supply chains, CISOs must tighten identity and access controls, govern agent accounts, and apply phishing-resistant MFA. They should prioritize zero-trust architectures across IT and OT, enforce proactive cloud posture management and supplier risk monitoring, and integrate geopolitical and regulatory scenario planning. Failing to address chatbot privacy, misconfigured cloud services, human error, and escalating compliance (e.g., GDPR, DORA, HIPAA) risks operational disruption, financial penalties, and reputational harm.

🔒 Palo Alto Networks announced that Prisma AIRS, accelerated on the NVIDIA BlueField DPU, is now part of the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design. The integration embeds zero trust runtime security into AI infrastructure by running Prisma AIRS Network Intercept on BlueField and extending enforcement to cloud environments. It leverages NVIDIA DOCA and DOCA Argus telemetry to feed Cortex XSIAM and Cortex XSOAR for AI-driven detection and response, and recommends hyperscale firewall clusters for defense-in-depth and improved TCO.

🔐 Cybersecurity in 2025 is framed as an architectural challenge rather than a set of isolated controls. This contributed report surveys shifts across authentication, endpoint and network security, software supply chains, SaaS data governance, AI-driven defenses, and human risk. It highlights hardware‑backed authentication, passkeys, binary-level verification, and network telemetry as pivotal controls. Vendors stress speed, visibility, and provable trust as the operational priorities.

🔒 Check Point announced multiple 2025 recognitions from leading analyst firms and independent research labs, underscoring its focus on securing AI-driven environments and distributed networks. The company emphasized a prevention-first philosophy that unifies security management and strengthens Zero Trust frameworks. These honors reflect validation of its strategy to enable safe enterprise AI adoption amid growing cyber threats.

🔒 CERN manages cybersecurity across a globally distributed research community by prioritizing risk adaptation over one-size-fits-all controls. CISO Stefan Lüders frames security as a sociological challenge—measures must be explained and adapted so academic freedom and research workflows remain viable while defending against threats from script kiddies to ransomware and espionage. With roughly 200,000 devices and extensive BYOD, CERN relies on defense-in-depth, network monitoring, segmentation for legacy and IoT systems, and mandated protections such as MFA. Governance is being formalized through audits and standards while preserving operational flexibility.

🔒 Passwd is a Google Workspace–focused password manager that emphasizes practical, business-oriented credential storage and seamless integration with Google Workspace. It uses client-side AES-256 encryption and a zero-knowledge design so only users can decrypt stored secrets, while SOC 2 and GDPR readiness support regulated environments. Administrators gain centralized controls, role-based permissions, audit logs, and scalable deployment options including hosting inside a customer Google Cloud project. Cross-platform access via web, browser extensions, and mobile apps plus autofill, password generation, and activity tracking make it a low-friction choice for teams committed to Google tools.

🔐 The article introduces Access Fabric as a unified, adaptive approach that links identity, device, and network signals to make real-time, risk-based access decisions throughout every session. It warns that fragmented identity and network tools create visibility gaps that AI-empowered attackers can exploit. By being contextual, connected, and continuous, an Access Fabric closes seams, reduces complexity, and enforces consistent policies for users, devices, and AI agents.

🛡️ Asahi Group Holdings is accelerating a major cybersecurity overhaul after a ransomware attack in late September that exposed personal data for around two million people and disrupted operations. CEO Atsushi Katsuki told Bloomberg he will elevate cybersecurity to a top management priority and is considering a dedicated internal cybersecurity unit. The company plans to abandon VPNs in favor of a stricter zero-trust model and expects recovery and reconstruction efforts to run through February 2026.

🔑 Implementing Zero Trust requires more than technical changes — it demands executive-level communication that reframes security risks and benefits in business terms. Security leaders should translate technical concepts into outcomes executives care about: reduced attack surface, lower costs, simpler operations and regulatory resilience. Start with CTOs and infrastructure teams, then engage business unit heads with tailored conversations and regular briefings to build trust and momentum.

🔒 Palo Alto Networks announces that Prisma Browser has been named the best-positioned market leader in the Frost Radar: Zero Trust Browser Security (ZTBS), 2025 report, recognized for both innovation and growth. The vendor frames the browser as the enterprise 'OS' where 85% of work occurs and 95% of security incidents originate, emphasizing the urgent need for native browser defenses. Powered by Precision AI, Cloud-Delivered Security Services and embedded Enterprise DLP, Prisma Browser inspects live, fully rendered content to detect evasive AI-driven phishing, zero-day browser exploits and malicious extensions. Combined with Advanced WildFire, URL Filtering and runtime extension security, the solution delivers last-mile protection without disrupting user workflows.

🔒Amazon Cognito identity pools now support AWS PrivateLink, enabling private connectivity between your VPC and Cognito to exchange federated identities for temporary AWS credentials. This removes the need to route authentication traffic over the public internet and reduces exposure of auth flows. PrivateLink endpoints are available in all Regions where Cognito identity pools operate except AWS China (Beijing) and AWS GovCloud (US); standard PrivateLink charges apply.

🛡️CISA released version 2.0 of its Cross-Sector Cybersecurity Performance Goals (CPGs), aligning the framework with NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 and three years of operational insights. The update consolidates IT, OT, and IoT goals into unified objectives, adds a new Govern function to strengthen leadership accountability, and expands guidance on zero trust, supply chain risk, and incident communication. CISA presents the streamlined, better-documented goals as practical, measurable, and voluntary actions organizations can adopt regardless of size.

🔒 Model Context Protocol (MCP) is increasingly used to connect AI agents with enterprise data sources, but real-world incidents at SaaS vendors have exposed practical weaknesses. The article describes what MCP security solutions should provide — discovery, runtime protection, strong authentication and comprehensive logging — and surveys offerings from hyperscalers, platform providers and startups. It stresses least-privilege and Zero Trust as core defenses.

🔍 John Lambert of MSTIC argues defenders should model infrastructure as directed graphs of credentials, entitlements, dependencies and logs so they can trace the attacker’s “red thread.” He introduces the algebras of defense—graphs, relational tables, anomalies, and vectors over time—that let analysts and AI ask domain-specific questions like blast radius or path to crown jewels. Lambert also emphasizes preventative hygiene: asset and entitlement management, deprecating legacy systems, segmentation, and phishing-resistant MFA. He urges collaborative intelligence and AI-enabled tooling to shift advantage back to defenders.

🔐 This guide shows how to operationalize the Shared Signals Framework (SSF) to deliver continuous device posture signals into identity platforms. It details a proof‑of‑concept workflow using Tines to receive webhooks from Kolide, enrich and map device data, generate and sign Security Event Tokens (SETs), and forward them to Okta as CAEP events. The approach enables real‑time policy enforcement and simplifies SSF adoption when endpoints lack native support. Steps and required credentials are summarized for quick deployment.

🔒 The article argues that the browser must be the primary enforcement point for enterprise zero trust, replacing outdated perimeter assumptions with per-request, context-aware controls. It synthesizes NIST SP 800-207 and 800-207A plus CISA guidance to describe identity-first access, least-privilege entitlements, continuous verification, phishing-resistant MFA (FIDO2/WebAuthn), device posture gating and remote browser isolation. Practical recommendations include SSO with short-lived tokens, SCIM-driven provisioning, ZTNA access proxies and governance-as-code to automate policy and reduce exposure.