With the recent publication of Gartner’s updated Magic Quadrant for Security Service Edge, we have been asked by several CXOs about this fast-growing solution category and how it relates to zero trust. The short answer is that they are closely intertwined.
Zero trust is a framework for securing organizations in the cloud and mobile world that asserts that no user or application should be trusted by default. Zero trust is a way of thinking permeating across several areas, not just new architecture or technology. There are practical zero trust implementations from vendors, like Zscaler, that have solutions with zero trust frameworks at their core. Once deployed, zero trust technology provides secure access to public or private destinations for users, things, and workloads.
