Forrester has long advocated for the Zero Trust model. It is an effective framework. Senior executives ought to look at it and inquire of your CIO about it. This is not just for security geeks!

This is big, folks. This is really big. Bigger than GameStop. Even bigger than Heelys (the adult version saved in my Amazon wish list). This could be the biggest technological transformation since sliced bread, Dorito tacos, or public cloud.

A year ago, fellow Forrester analyst Andre Kindness and I set out to document a new model for security and networking that was gaining mindshare in the market. Well, just last week, we published the fruits of that research in a Forrester report titled “Introducing The Zero Trust Edge Model For Security And Network Services.” There’s a similar name going around in the market, “Secure Access Services Edge” (SASE — pronounced like it rhymes with “gassy”) to describe the same model, but we put the emphasis on the Zero Trust part (more on that in a minute).

I am an advocate for this model for several reasons. But the primary one is this:

• • • • • The internet was designed without security in mind. We’ve allowed it to become a toxic, malicious hive of scum and villainy.
        • And we, as technologists, just expect every organization in the world to simply attach themselves directly to it and hope it all works out for them?
        • For 25 years, we’ve just been putting Band-Aids on top of Band-Aids, hoping to stop the cybersecurity bleeding, but the carnage gets worse every year.

Read more here —> Take Security To The Zero Trust Edge