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Zero trust security

As organizations leverage cloud services and mobility, attack surfaces grow in tandem with overall security risks. A new approach is needed to better protect workloads outside of an organization's traditional controls. Zero trust security is a framework that implements the principle of "least privilege" by dynamically verifying identity and assessing the risk of each transaction. By implementing zero trust security across all networks — including public and private clouds — you allow your security teams to gain control and improve visibility.

Authentication in a Zero Trust Framework

Matt Berry, WWT's Global Field CTO of Cybersecurity, shares how you can reduce risk, cost and complexity with authentication in a zero trust framework.

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• 16:19

• Apr 7, 2023

Security Strategy

NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 Adds Governance to Emphasize Risk

NIST has revised the popular security framework for the first time since its release. The latest update expands to include the importance of managing cybersecurity risk effectively.

Article

• Aug 11, 2023

What is Zero Trust?

What is zero trust security? Learn what is zero trust, how it can benefit your organization and how to implement a zero trust security architecture.

Article

• Feb 23, 2023

Security Transformation

Security Maturity Model

How to assess the security posture of your organization: A step-by-step guide for CISOs to build alignment, reduce risk and deliver business value.

WWT Research

• Sep 13, 2022

Identity as a Building Block for Zero Trust

Effective identity and access management is a necessary foundation for Zero Trust Architecture. Understand the identity measures needed to support this security model.

Article

• May 20, 2020

How do I get started with zero trust security?

Many organizations are unsure of how to approach implementing a zero trust security model. Our team of experts can help every step of the way — from understanding key concepts to selecting the right technology — no matter the starting point. Explore below how our phased approach to adopting zero trust security allows organizations to establish a global strategy and technical roadmap.

Evaluate

The first step is solidifying a zero trust security strategy and assessing the risks and maturity of your current approach. Our team can help your organization lay the foundation for the successful adoption of zero trust cybersecurity across your organization.

Zero Trust Briefing

Increased visibility, reducing the attack surface, and rationalizing zero trust theory with technical implementation—these are just a few of the outcomes that a successful zero trust program should provide. Securing the enterprise, both on-premise and in the cloud, is a challenge in today's landscape.

Briefing

• 2 hrs

Design

Next, it's important to determine what's needed to support your organization's zero trust security strategy. Our technical design experts can help identify the scope, key technologies and investments needed for a solution. A strategic roadmap will identify the key activities and stakeholders required for a zero trust security successful journey.

Cisco Zero Trust: A Holistic Approach

Zero Trust is a visionary end state of enterprise segmentation. Many solutions exist that can set you on the path to achieving this long-term objective. This article provides a brief refresher of what Zero Trust is and how Cisco uniquely tackles it in almost any environment.

Article

• Jun 3, 2023

Implement

Companies often struggle to implement enterprise segmentation and zero trust cybersecurity because of the amount of complexity, the limitless number of technical variables present in brownfield environments, and a lack of staffing and resources. Our experts can help simplify this complexity by developing a plan that allows for more agile workflows, leading to shorter implementations.

Zero Trust Principles

Not just a single solution, a zero trust implementation is an integrated approach for continuous validation of authorized users across your entire organization.

Article

• Jun 29, 2023

Supply Chain and Integration Services

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Cut your proof of concept time from months to weeks, if not days, by leveraging the ATC's testing and automation infrastructure.

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Strategic Resourcing

Matching the best talent to your needs. Delivering the right support at the right time to drive outcomes.

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Operate

After implementing your zero trust security plan and architecture, it's crucial to continue optimizing. Our experts can help operationalize, automate, monitor and manage your investment. A properly designed zero trust cybersecurity architecture must include key lifecycle elements that ensure operational efficiencies.

Security Strategy

TEC37 E23: Optimize Cyber Tools to Reclaim Time, Resources and Money

The rising concern of cyber breaches within the enterprise has organizations grappling to figure out, just how secure are we? Having purchased numerous security solutions, it is critical for an organization to understand if and how these solutions are adequately protecting the infrastructure and securing vulnerable data. In this TEC37, Robb Boyd and WWT's experts, Matt Berry, Matt Long and Kris Carr, will discuss how WWT's Tools Rationalization approach will ensure your organization is advancing its security posture, optimizing investments, and pursuing reduction in spending.

Webinar

• Dec 10, 2020 • 3pm

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Zero Trust

Improve your organization's ability to protect against today's most sophisticated attacks — inside and outside the network — with zero trust security.

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VPN vs ZTNA: Five Lessons Learned by Making the Switch from VPN to Zero Trust Network Access

Implementing zero trust is a continuum of paring back access over time to get to your goal of minimum trust and least-privileged access. Learn how one large healthcare company realized they needed to rethink their traditional VPN strategy.

Partner Contribution

• May 23, 2023

Introduction to Akamai Guardicore Segmentation (AGS)

Learn about AGS and how it provides a simple, fast and intuitive way to enforce Zero Trust principles.

Article

• Mar 20, 2023

Security Transformation

Security Priorities for 2023

A roadmap for securing the business and powering performance.

WWT Research

• Feb 7, 2023

How IT Leaders Can Successfully Enable Hybrid Work

Experts from WWT and Cisco share practical advice about how to adapt your current IT environment so your hybrid workers thrive in a flexible work model.

Article

• Aug 17, 2022

Fortinet Security POC – Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)

In March 2023, a Fortinet ZTNA proof of concept test (POC) was completed in the WWT Advanced Technology Center. Here, we present a summary of the testing and results.

Blog

• Aug 8, 2023

What's new

Demystifying Zero Trust: Navigate the Journey One Step at a Time

In a digital landscape fraught with sophisticated cyber threats, traditional security models fall short in providing adequate protection.

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• 25:26

Nov 30, 2023

Security Transformation

Partner POV | Passkeys: Building Blocks for Passwordless Authentication

How do you protect your network and its users from this rising threat? The answer is surprisingly simple: passwordless authentication using passkeys.

Partner Contribution

• Nov 20, 2023

Partner POV | How Zero Trust can help align the CIO and CISO

The role of the CIO (Chief Information Officer) and CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) have become increasingly important in recent years as organizations place more emphasis on digital transformation and information security.

Partner Contribution

• Nov 17, 2023

FedTalks 2023 Recap: Securing Government Operations and AI's Role in Citizen Experience

FedScoop event recap: Learn about the challenges and opportunities of securing government operations in the digital age and the transformative role of AI in enhancing the citizen experience.

Blog

• Oct 27, 2023

Dell Trusted Infrastructure Overview

A modern, resilient and intelligent technology foundation for your Zero Trust architecture and security transformation.

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• 1:17

Oct 22, 2023

Partner POV: Zero Trust, Cloud-Based Anytime, Anywhere

Being connected to the internet 24/7/365 with high-speed communication networks is no longer a luxury—it's an expectation. Users expect to find the information we need, when we need it, with no interruption. But this begs a question: How do you enable users with the ability to access the data they need, when they need it without compromising your security?

Partner Contribution

• Oct 20, 2023

Supercharge, simplify and streamline your visibility wherever your workforce and data go

Today's organizations are challenged by managing too many tools and their associated issues. Even with these tools, they cannot get to the root cause of their end-user issues. These challenges only become worse as users' applications and data are dispersed. Game-changing Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) leverages AI to give companies visibility to troubleshoot and identify problems faster and easier—before they become major issues.

Article

• Oct 20, 2023

Best practices for healthcare delivery organizations to safeguard sensitive data

Healthcare delivery organizations should follow a zero trust approach to cybersecurity to safeguard patient data, intellectual property and more.

WWT Research

• Sep 25, 2023

SASE Architecture: Cisco Viptela SD-WAN With Zscaler (SSE) Lab

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), coined by Gartner in 2019, is a solution that blends networking and security into cloud scale architecture that optimizes end user performance and improves security for an organization. With the Zscaler and SD-WAN integration, you can rapidly gain access to cloud-delivered security in minutes. This market leading API automation makes it very fast and agile to deploy and manage the network and security environment of hundreds or even thousands of remote sites.

Advanced Configuration Lab

248 launches

Data Threat Protection Steps into the Spotlight with the Security Service Edge

Zscaler DLP capabilities open up unexpected new use cases

Article

• Aug 30, 2023

Partner POV | Why Network Monitoring Tools Fail Within Secure Environments

There is a fundamental shift happening through secure digital transformation, which includes application transformation (data center to SaaS, IaaS, PaaS), network transformation (hub-and-spoke to direct connectivity), and security transformation (castle-and-moat to zero trust).

Partner Contribution

• Aug 15, 2023

Zscaler Zero Trust Lab

Zscaler is responsible for securing more than 400 of the Forbes Global 2000 companies. They provide security as a service delivered through a purpose-built, globally distributed platform. The focus of this lab is zero trust access utilizing a solution known as Zscaler Private Access (ZPA). ZPA is a cloud service that provides seamless, zero trust access to private applications running on public cloud or within the data center. With ZPA, applications don't need to be exposed to the internet, making them completely invisible to unauthorized users. This service enables the applications to connect to users via inside-out connectivity versus extending the network to them. It disrupts legacy approaches to remote access such as traditional VPN, establishing per-service dynamic encryption and trust evaluation.

Foundations Lab

701 launches

Internet of Things (IoT)

Zscaler IoT Device Visibility at-a-Glance

The proliferation and diversity of IoT devices, shadow devices, and unknown device behavior creates a significant blind spot for enterprises as they struggle to gain even basic visibility into the IoT devices on their network and the risks they may pose to the business.

Partner Contribution

• Aug 8, 2023

Fortinet Security POC – Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)

In March 2023, a Fortinet ZTNA proof of concept test (POC) was completed in the WWT Advanced Technology Center. Here, we present a summary of the testing and results.

Blog

• Aug 8, 2023

Zero Trust Insights for Federal Agencies with Dell

Hear from Dan Carroll, Dell Federal's Field CTO for Cybersecurity, about Zero Trust Insights for Federal Agencies

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• 6:56

Jul 31, 2023

Network Security

Partner POV | The Evolution of Network Access Control (NAC)

How IoT and Telework Have Changed NAC Solutions

Partner Contribution

• Jul 21, 2023

Authentication: Getting Serious about Zero Trust.

Authentication must be examined along the new axis of excellence laid out by the CISA's Zero Trust Maturity Model

Partner Contribution

• Jul 14, 2023

Application Delivery Controllers

Unlocking Zero Trust: The Role of OAuth in Security Architecture

In today's cloud-centric, BYOD-driven and distributed microservices landscape, traditional security measures such as VPNs and perimeter defenses struggle to keep pace with the increasing need for enterprise security. Implicitly trusting entities within a network poses significant risks, necessitating a paradigm shift. Enter Zero Trust—an approach that requires independent security for every enterprise asset and authenticates and authorizes user and process identities at every level. This lab explores the critical role of OAuth in enabling a Zero Trust architecture and allows lab users to implement & test the OAuth Solution.

Advanced Configuration Lab

18 launches

Zero Trust Principles

Not just a single solution, a zero trust implementation is an integrated approach for continuous validation of authorized users across your entire organization.

Article

• Jun 29, 2023

Guardicore Zero Trust

Learn about Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, a software-based microsegmentation solution that provides a simple, fast, and intuitive way to enforce Zero Trust principles. In this Learning Path, you will explore the architecture on which Akamai Guardicore Segmentation runs, as well as look into how Guardicore is able to visualize and organize an environment through the use of asset labels. You will also learn how Guardicore establishes micro-segmentation using these asset labels through the creation of both manual and wizard-based policy rules.

Learning Path