Agile security – think big, start small, move fast
Security must be agile!
As we discussed in Chapter 3, Zero Trust Is Security for Today’s World, security must continuously adapt to ongoing changes in business conditions, technology platforms, and attackers who are creative, intelligent, and motivated to learn and adapt.
Staying adaptive to these changes requires an agile approach to security that assumes failure (assumes compromise) and focuses on incremental progress rather than deferred perfection.
What is agile security?
Agile security is simply acknowledging that the real world is messy and unpredictable, and adapting to that.
Zero Trust enables an agile approach to security. Zero Trust enables security to be agile and keep up with continuously changing requirements (business requirements, technology platforms, security threats, and more).
While this is simple, it isn’t easy to adopt this way of thinking if you have been used to classic...