Zero Trust Cybersecurity Protocols Slow Companies to “Mask Up”

There is only one way to find out if you can trust someone, and that is by trusting them, according to Ernest Hemingway, considering that most organizations follow zero trust policies, which were developed nearly two decades ago by John Kindervag. These policies are now the default behavior. This is not a wise piece of advice for network security. As a result, we have seen an increase in the number of cases of infection due to the Coronavirus pandemic and remote work. 

Despite this, companies are a bit slow to adopt zero trust when it is about protecting against malware and data exfiltration. By 2026, Gartner has predicted that only 10% of large enterprises will have in place a zero-trust program that is mature and measurable by the end of this decade. 

Currently, less than 1% of organizations have automated their systems with zero trust. This is according to a consulting firm. It was reported that despite zero trust is a critical strategy for reducing risk for most organizations, few had implemented the system. 

In his latest commentary for Gartner’s VP Analyst Series, John Watts, VP Analyst at Gartner, said that many organization

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