The migration to cloud means teams and organizations must rethink how to secure their applications and infrastructure. Security in the cloud is being recast from static and IP-based – defined by a perimeter – to dynamic and identity-based – with no clear perimeter. Nowhere is this more true than in the public sector, where organizations are not just protecting their own data, but that of the people and constituents they are sworn to serve. This idea is known as Zero Trust Security.
As the public sector moves to the cloud and updates its processes to conform to new federal mandates, the measures they previously took to secure their private datacenters start to disappear. IP-based perimeters and access are replaced by ephemeral IP addresses. In addition they now have a constantly changing workforce with the need to access shared resources. Managing access and IPs at scale becomes brittle and complex. Securing infrastructure, data, and access becomes increasingly difficult across clouds and on-premises datacenters, requiring lots of overhead and expertise.
This shift requires a different approach to security and a different trust model; one that trusts nothing and authenticates and authorizes everything.
In this white paper, we look at the challenges of multi-cloud zero trust security in the public sector, and present solutions for IT teams to implement a Zero Trust Security Posture.
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