The Future of Digital Security: Will Zero Trust Keep Us Safe?

The Buzz 1: “All it takes is faith and trust. Oh, and something I forgot. Dust! Dust? Yep. Just a little bit of pixie dust.” (Peter Pan played by Bobby Driscoll, 1953 film song You Can Fly!) The Buzz 2: “It's all right. I understand. Why trust a shark, right?” (Bruce, a great white shark voiced by Barry Humphries, Finding Nemo, Disney/Pixar 2003 animated film) Cyber-hacking on a huge global scale is challenging our institutions, organizations, public and private infrastructure. Today, cybersecurity is more than just a checkbox; good is good enough is no longer adequate. What to do? The term ‘Zero Trust’ was coined by/before April 1994 by Stephen Paul Marsh…trust transcends human factors such as morality, ethics, lawfulness, justice, and judgment. Zero trust surpassed distrust when it came to securing computing systems, applications, and networks. (handwiki.org) With Zero Trust, you assume threats come from everywhere, even inside your organization, your family, your friends. It questions why tech support and company administrators do or do not need to see your private information, from passwords to personal data. We’ll ask John Walsh, Chuck Byers, Chris Rezendes and Matthew Erickson to share their predictions about applying Zero Trust to applications on our phones and computers, how rethinking 'trust' will impact us, and why we should care, on The Future of Digital Security: Will Zero Trust Finally Keep Your Private Info Safe?