Intelligent CISO Issue 24 | Page 23

infographic employees and shadow IT risks are top challenges to secure access to applications and resources. While 45% are concerned with public cloud application access security and 43% of respondents expressed Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) enablement issues, more than 70% of organisations are looking to advance their identity and access management capabilities. Workforce mobility and hybrid IT models have placed most workloads beyond the shelter of corporate networks and traditional perimeter defence – which creates significant user access and data concerns. The 2020 Zero Trust Progress Report revealed nearly a third of cybersecurity professionals expressed value in applying Zero Trust to address hybrid IT security issues. The report highlighted that a quarter of organisations seek to augment their current Secure Access infrastructure with Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP) technology (aka Zero Trust Network Access – ZTNA). Of the respondents considering SDP, a majority (53%) would require a hybrid IT deployment and a quarter (25%) would adopt an SaaS (Software-as-a- Service) implementation. u Nearly a third of cybersecurity professionals expressed value in applying Zero Trust to address hybrid IT security issues. www.intelligentciso.com | Issue 24 23