Enabling secure remote work by embracing Zero Trust

Steve Faehl is Microsoft’s U.S. security chief technology officer, responsible for helping organizations develop strategies to reduce risk by improving their cyber defenses. One of the greatest challenges we often hear from public and private sector CIOs, when it comes to achieving a Zero Trust IT operating environment, is the question of how to tackle such a massive undertaking — and where and how to begin. If there was one lesson we learned at Microsoft as we sought to establish Zero Trust security principles internally — and we learned many lessons — it was the importance of starting with a fundamental premise: To build out assurances in places where we traditionally relied on implicit trust. That premise began at Microsoft with one of Bill Gates’ famous internal strategy memos  on “trustworthy computing.”  While the term Zero Trust hadn’t yet been coined, the concept and principles are essentially the same. They […]

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Adjusting to the new security realities of a remote workforce

CIOs and CISOs have been under intense pressure to meet the needs of homebound workers, while simultaneously needing to take added steps to safeguard their enterprise networks. Steve Grobman, senior vice president and chief technology officer at McAfee, has a global view of that challenge. Grobman leads the company’s worldwide development of next-generation cyberdefense and data science technologies as well as threat and vulnerability research. In an interview for CyberScoop, Grobman shares his observations on what enterprise IT leaders are encountering — and measures that they might take to mitigate risks associated with home networks essentially becoming part of the enterprise IT infrastructure. This interview, underwritten by McAfee, was edited for brevity. CyberScoop: Organizations are sprinting to equip their employees to work remotely. How is that impacting the cyber risks enterprises face across their networks? Steve Grobman: Organizations must recognize that there are risks associated with new types of employees […]

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