Author: Andy Heather

Organisations will respond to the current threat landscape with a zero-trust model The big event of 2017 was the Equifax breach, where cyber criminals gained access to the data of 143 million people. Fallout included the departure of senior executives, the filing of more than 23 class-action lawsuits and a 35 percent stock price decline that wiped out $4 billion in market cap. The unusually severe market reaction may indicate investors are growing increasingly intolerant of companies that don’t take security seriously. We expect companies to respond by implementing zero-trust models—which involves two important shifts. First, it shifts access controls from the perimeter to individual devices and…