Ellen Sundra of Forescout Technologies observes that the telework required by the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates that organizations’ networks now extend to employees’ homes, which introduces substantial security risks. “To maintain continuity of operations, government organizations must move toward a new network security paradigm that distrusts all devices and users and denies them access to network resources until they have demonstrated the requisite level of security and authorization,” Sundra writes. “That strategic initiative is called ‘zero trust’.”
