A poll conducted by SentryBay, the UK-based cybersecurity software company has found that 69.1 per ent of professionals with security responsibility believe a rethink is needed to deal with the threat of cybersecurity now that devices and applications have moved outside the corporate network.
The poll, which was conducted on Twitter amongst cybersecurity professionals, aimed to assess attitudes to cyber threats and methods of protecting vulnerable devices. It found that 58.3 percent of respondents believed that a zero-trust approach to security was essential, and 19.9 pe cent thought it was important. When asked if their organisation had adopted zero-trust, however, only a third said they had.
One barrier might be the difficulties that companies are experiencing in implementing BYOD models, for which zero trust is the recommended approach to securing corporate perimeters. Over a third (33.5 percent) said that adopting BYOD was too complicated. The role of enterprise users has also been a BYOD challenge with user privacy concerns being cited by 28.1 percent of respondents and user engagement/friction cited by 19.9 percent . Management overheads were a challenge for 19.9 percent.
