With cyberattacks on the rise, no organization can afford to be careless about its security. But cloud architecture makes old ways of keeping systems and data safe obsolete.

In a distributed network, there’s no single “castle” to defend. Instead, a new strategy — known as “zero trust” — is the best approach to keeping everything that matters locked down tight — and malicious actors locked out.

A zero trust security strategy calls for not only technology that automates authentication and authorization tasks, but also a shift in thinking and organization-wide cultural changes. In the new ebook from The New Stack, we offer a high-level overview and explore what it takes to implement a zero trust approach in an organization.

You’ll learn:

• What zero trust is.
• Why the old “castle and moat” approach doesn’t work on the cloud.
• What authentication and authorization mean in a zero trust environment.
• How cultural changes support a zero trust strategy.
• The role automation plays in ensuring security.