All news with #zero trust tag

🔒 Agentic AI introduces a mounting Zero Trust challenge as autonomous agents increasingly act with inherited or unmanaged credentials, creating orphaned identities and ungoverned access. Ido Shlomo of Token Security argues that identity must be the root of trust and recommends applying the NIST AI RMF through an identity-driven Zero Trust lens. Organizations should discover and inventory agents, assign unique managed identities and owners, enforce intent-based least privilege, and apply lifecycle controls, monitoring, and governance to restore auditability and accountability.

🛡️ This article by Andrius Buinovskis of NordLayer explains why default gateway setups often leave gaps in security, performance, and compliance. It recommends four core actions: network segmentation, multiple distributed gateways to avoid single points of failure, optimization for geographically dispersed workforces, and layered cloud firewall controls to restrict ports and protocols. The guidance aligns with Zero Trust principles and highlights regional privacy rules such as GDPR and CCPA.

🔒 Prisma Browser is a cloud-delivered secure enterprise browser that extends policy-aligned controls to all web sessions regardless of device or location. It isolates workspaces and enforces last-mile identity, data and threat protections, integrating with Prisma Access and Cloud Delivered Security Services powered by Precision AI. Assessed to IRAP PROTECTED, it is positioned to help Australian government and regulated organisations implement Essential Eight-aligned controls without deploying endpoint agents.

🛡️ This article debunks 13 persistent cybersecurity myths that no longer hold up against rapidly evolving threats such as AI-generated deepfakes and accelerating digitalization. Experts contend that AI augments rather than replaces human analysts, because human context and judgment remain essential. They warn that identity verification, MFA, and buying more tools or people are insufficient without mature operations, automated certificate management, and a defense-in-depth posture tuned for modern attacker behaviors.

🔐 Ransomware intrusions increasingly begin with compromised identities: recent analyses attribute roughly three quarters of incidents to stolen or misused credentials. Defenses must shift from infrastructure-centric controls to identity-first models like Zero Trust, combining RBAC, MFA and context-aware authentication. Adaptive, risk-based access and passwordless methods reduce friction while improving detection and auditability. Regulatory regimes such as NIS2 and DORA further mandate auditable access controls.

🔒 As CSO for Google Public Sector, the post frames an urgency-driven approach to modern government security, emphasizing AI-powered threat detection, Zero Trust engineering, and a shared responsibility model. It highlights how Google Security Operations (FedRAMP High), fused threat intelligence from VirusTotal and Mandiant, and fast incident response strengthen mission continuity. The piece stresses that legacy defenses are insufficient against AI-enhanced adversaries and calls for proactive, intelligence-led modernization.

🔐 The article contends that the Cold War–era CIA triad (confidentiality, integrity, availability) is too narrow for modern threats driven by cloud, AI, and fragile supply chains. It proposes the 3C Model—Core, Complementary, Contextual—to elevate authenticity, accountability, and resilience as foundational pillars rather than afterthoughts. The framework aims to harmonize standards, reduce duplication, and help CISOs speak in terms of survival, trust, and business impact instead of only uptime and technical controls.

🔐 Microsoft published a second installment of the Secure Future Initiative (SFI) patterns and practices, delivering six practical, practitioner-built guides that address network isolation, tenant hardening, Entra ID app security, Zero Trust for source code access, software supply chain protection, and centralized log collection. Each article outlines the problem, Microsoft’s internal solution, actionable customer guidance, and trade-offs to help teams apply scalable controls across complex, multi-cloud environments.

🔒 A secure enterprise browser provides a practical, cost-efficient Zero Trust approach to managing contractor access, reducing reliance on complex VPNs and broad network privileges. By isolating sessions and enforcing granular policies per user and resource, organizations can grant contractors only the access required for their role. This reduces attack surface, simplifies administration, and lowers operational costs while supporting both short-term and long-term engagements.

🔒 Manufacturers face growing, targeted cyber threats driven by legacy OT, complex supply chains, and high-value IP. Attackers increasingly use credential theft, social engineering and sophisticated malware to achieve prolonged access, data theft and ransomware extortion that can halt production and ripple across partners. Building resilience with MFA, prompt patching and continuous detection such as MDR — offering 24/7 threat monitoring, expert hunting and rapid containment — reduces downtime and strengthens supply chain security while aligning with Zero Trust principles.

🔒 CISA now frames microsegmentation as a foundational element of Zero Trust rather than a late-stage optimization, and modern solutions aim to remove historical deployment barriers. Zero Networks highlights agentless, automated, identity-aware, and MFA-enabled controls that speed policy creation and adaptation while minimizing disruption. The vendor cites industry research showing strong market growth, broad practitioner support, and substantial cost reductions compared with legacy segmentation approaches.

⚠️Recent cyberattacks forced production halts at Jaguar Land Rover and Asahi, underscoring that operational disruption is now a primary objective for threat actors. JLR paused production after an August 31 compromise attributed to the Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters group, reportedly using vishing to obtain credentials, while Asahi halted orders and shipments following a systems failure. Experts emphasize that attackers exploit phishing, unpatched systems, and supply‑chain weaknesses, and urge layered defenses such as zero trust, MFA, PAM, micro‑segmentation, continuous monitoring, and air‑gapped backups to preserve business continuity.

🔒 AWS Storage Gateway now supports VPC endpoint policies, allowing administrators to attach fine‑grained endpoint policies to VPC endpoints that control access to Storage Gateway direct APIs. Administrators can scope access by principal, action, and resource to reduce attack surface and enforce data protection controls. The capability is available in all Regions where Storage Gateway operates; review endpoint policies to align with your security and compliance requirements.

🔐 This post explains how to design defense-in-depth network architectures for generative AI workloads using AWS services. It outlines common external threats — including layer 4 and layer 7 DDoS, web request floods, application-specific exploits, and malicious bots — and maps mitigations to AWS capabilities. The guidance recommends private connectivity via Amazon Bedrock and AWS PrivateLink, edge protections with AWS WAF and AWS Shield, subnet-level controls using AWS Network Firewall, and continuous detection and response with GuardDuty, Inspector, and CloudWatch.

🔒 Fortinet explains how partners can guide customers from secure SD-WAN to a full Unified SASE platform to address hybrid work, multi-cloud adoption, and rising cyberthreats. The article emphasizes that Secure SD-WAN is an on-ramp to SASE because it is natively integrated into Fortinet's SASE architecture, enabling expansion without replacing existing deployments. It outlines operational benefits, market growth projections, and partner opportunities around differentiated services, consolidated policy management, and simplified licensing.

🚀 The U.S. Air Force, working with Google Public Sector and GDIT, deployed the Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance to run classified workloads at the tactical edge in DDIL environments. The rugged, transportable system demonstrated secure, Zero Trust-capable processing up to Secret, delivering on-device AI for transcription, OCR, translation, and summarization during Mobility Guardian 2025 in Guam. It also supported containerized IL2 collaboration, Luna AI integration for low-latency air-defense data, a Jupyter-based edge dev environment, and AI-enabled tele-maintenance to convert manuals and visual data into actionable maintenance insights.

🔐 The Cloud Security Alliance has published the SaaS Security Capability Framework (SSCF) to establish technical minimum requirements that help SaaS providers and customers apply Zero-Trust principles and address rising third-party risks highlighted by recent Salesforce attacks. The SSCF defines controls across six domains, including identity and access management, data lifecycle, and logging and monitoring, and translates business requirements into concrete, configurable security functions such as log forwarding, SSO enforcement and incident notification. CSA positions the SSCF as a complement to, not a replacement for, frameworks like ISO 27001, while vendors stress that continuous validation and operational implementation are essential to reduce real-world risk.

⚠️ Many organizations are moving too quickly into agentic AI and risk major security failures unless boards embed governance and security from day one. The article argues that the shift from AI giving answers to AI taking actions changes the control surface to identity, privilege and oversight, and that most programs lack cross‑functional accountability. It recommends forming an Agentic Governance Council, defining measurable objectives and building zero trust guardrails, and highlights Prisma AIRS as a platform approach to restore visibility and control.

🚀 TELUS modernized its global digital workplace by deploying ChromeOS, Google Workspace, Cameyo, and Chrome Enterprise Premium to create a browser-first, zero-trust app streaming platform. The TELUS Desktop Stream replaced costly VDI, avoided a $15 million infrastructure refresh, and cut login times by threefold. More than 100 applications now run through Cameyo, improving call-center throughput and agent productivity. IT teams report simplified management, stronger contextual security, and reduced reliance on VPNs.

🔐 Credential-based attacks are at epidemic levels: the 2025 Verizon DBIR shows 22% of breaches begin with compromised credentials, and Check Point's External Risk Management saw leaked credential volumes rise 160% year‑over‑year. Attackers increasingly prefer to "log in" rather than "hack in," exploiting exposed passwords, tokens, API keys and OAuth abuse. The article recommends a hybrid mesh architecture that unifies identity, network, endpoint and cloud telemetry to apply context-aware, adaptive access controls, improved credential hygiene, and faster detection and response.