Why Your Business Needs Zero Trust Security
With the shift to remote and hybrid work environments, ensuring that the right people have access to your systems and data has never been more critical. Traditional methods like Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) are no longer enough. To truly protect your business, you need to adopt a complete Zero Trust security approach.
What is Zero Trust?
Zero Trust is a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy that redefines how we think about security. It eliminates the concept of implicit trust by continuously verifying every action and connection within your network. Whether someone is inside or outside your organization, they must be verified at every step, ensuring a secure environment for your data and critical assets.
How Can You Achieve Zero Trust Security?
By leveraging Microsoft’s robust security suite, you can implement a true Zero Trust strategy. Achieving this involves verifying three crucial elements: identity, access, and devices. Microsoft Zero Trust security solutions empower you to effectively manage and secure all three.
Verifying Identity
With the increasing threat of credential theft, it’s vital to strengthen your identity verification processes. Azure Authenticator MFA ensures that users only access the specific resources they’ve been granted, across all devices. Azure Active Directory (AAD) enhances this by integrating with your firewall for MFA and introducing automated identity governance. This speeds up user verification, making sure that only the right people have access to the right data at the right time.
Verifying Access
Azure Active Directory Conditional Access allows you to set strict criteria for application logins and adapt your security policies to block unrecognized devices or connections. By implementing minimum password requirements and Smart Lockout procedures, you can further secure your perimeter and keep unauthorized users out. With Single Sign-On integration into over 4,500 SaaS apps, AAD simplifies access while maintaining robust security.
Verifying Devices
Microsoft Intune is a key player in the Zero Trust security stack, offering Cloud-based management for both mobile devices and applications. Intune gives you granular control over how devices and applications are used within your organization. You can enforce security and compliance settings across individual devices or your entire network, monitor devices as they enrol, and ensure they adhere to your security standards before accessing business resources.
Integrate Microsoft Zero Trust into Your Security Strategy
For the strongest defence, Microsoft Zero Trust solutions should be part of a broader, multi-layered security strategy. To learn more about Microsoft’s other security solutions and how to integrate them for comprehensive protection, download our eBook, Introducing the Microsoft Security Suite.