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The benefits of adopting zero trust go beyond its drivers. Through zero trust, organizations not only avoid risk (and thus unnecessary costs) but also save capital through operational efficiencies and enable business.

Since implementing zero trust takes two or more years, Goerlich pointed out that organizations may not necessarily have 100% zero trust. “Today, the strongest predictor of whether or not organizations feel that they are achieving zero trust is whether or not they have automation, orchestration in place,” he said.

Aberdeen found that endpoint detection and response (EDR) and extended detection and response (XDR) are becoming mainstream as a result of zero trust thinking.

Goerlich reiterated this and added that organizations increasingly pair extended detection and response (XDR) with zero trust. “If you have a zero trust project in progress, you are 40% more likely to say, ‘I have an XDR/EDR project,’” Goerlich said. “ Because as we harden that layer, criminals are going to move. If you have end-to-end protection, where do they go? They go to the edge.”

Read the full article: https://www.spiceworks.com/it-security/cyber-risk-management/articles/cybersecurity-risk-management-zero-trust/

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Excerpt from: Navigating Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0

“Suppliers with strong confidence in their audit and compliance teams, and suppliers with sufficient staffing, are ideally positioned should they decide to achieve Level 1 without external support,” added Wolfgang Goerlich, advisory chief information security officer, Cisco Secure, the portfolio of security products offered by San Francisco-based Cisco. “Such internal compliance initiatives can move quicker than bringing in a third-party when the people on the team have the relationships and understanding of how the practices are performed.”

The approach Goerlich describes may save money, but it won’t provide external validation and new perspectives.

“Achieving Level 1 with an internal project team answers the question, ‘What are we doing?’ but cannot answer the questions, ‘What are others doing, and what should we be doing?’” Goerlich said.

Read the full article: https://www.sme.org/technologies/articles/2023/february/navigating-cybersecurity-maturity-model-certification-cmmc-2.0/

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Identity and access management solutions continue a hot streak for their capacity to improve operations.

Excerpt from: Tech Trends: Governments Express High Interest in IAM

At the Virginia Department of Transportation, a ransomware hack targeting the state’s traffic management system made it clear that it was time to beef up VPN security. For the state of Illinois, the issue was siloed technology operations within agencies that made it difficult for employees and residents to access tools and services.

The challenge for the city and county of Denver was what the government’s chief data officer described as multifactor authentication “sprawl.”

While each organization had to deal with its own problems, their IT teams all came to the same conclusion: They had to do better with identity and access management.

“I’ve never seen so much interest in this topic,” says Wolfgang Goerlich, Cisco’s advisory CISO for Duo, an identity and access management platform that both Denver and VDOT now rely on for protection from cyberthreats. “The big picture is that zero trust has become a mandate at multiple levels, and agencies are turning to identity and access management as one of the quickest paths to success.”

Read the full article: https://statetechmagazine.com/article/2022/12/tech-trends-governments-express-high-interest-iam

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