One Identity has released global survey findings that unpack the current state of Zero Trust awareness and adoption across the enterprise. As Zero Trust awareness continues to rise on the heels of the US White House’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity that was released in May 2021 and a year plagued by one disastrous cybersecurity incident after another, new findings from One Identity reveal that only one in five security stakeholders are confident in their organisations’ understanding of Zero Trust.
According to the Dimensional Research – conducted a survey of 1,009 IT security professionals, Zero Trust is a main security priority for most organisations, but comprehensive understanding and adoption of the Forrester-founded framework remains inconsistent. While 75% of organisations recognise Zero Trust as being critically or very important to bolstering overall cybersecurity posture, only 14% report that they have fully implemented a solution. Another 39% of organisations have begun to address this important need and an additional 22% noted that they plan to implement Zero Trust over the course of the next year.
Among key barriers to widespread Zero Trust success is a lack of clarity on how adoption can be achieved. Just 61% of security professionals are focusing their implementation on reconfiguring access policies, while 54% believe it begins with identifying how sensitive data moves throughout the network. Only 51% are implementing new technology to achieve Zero Trust.
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