Zero Trust Security

Strengthen security while improving productivity

What is Zero Trust?

In the dynamic landscape of relentless digital evolution, conventional security measures often fall short. Enter our Zero Trust Security approach, taking center stage to reshape your defense strategy. It's not about additional technology investments; it's about embracing a new mindset.

Security should be intricately woven into every aspect of your operations, forming the expected shield around your digital assets and sensitive data. Every organization uses cloud applications. Relying solely on perimeter defenses is no longer sufficient. Zero Trust Security enables efficient collaboration with all the different actors like your customers, partners, and employees while recognizing that trust should never be assumed, and security demands unwavering vigilance.

Why Zero Trust?

Remote workforces. Cloud computing. SaaS. Perimeters as we once knew them are gone. Infrastructure is no longer centralized on-prem and users are connecting to enterprise resources remotely. Office-centric and data center-centric security tools like legacy VPNs and network access controls (NACs) are obsolete.

Zero Trust brings improvements in efficiency and effectiveness through the automated enforcement of dynamic and identity-centric access policies. While this may seem complicated, it's breadth of scope actually helps simplify enterprise security and architecture.

Why Massive Scale Consulting?

Our progressive, agile approach to Zero Trust Security recognizes the value of your existing investments and informs a strategy that builds upon your current foundation. We start with the highest priority areas and as you progress we provide modular solutions that maximize your defenses, as well as automation and process orchestration to unlock greater efficiencies.

The result is an evolving cybersecurity ecosystem that achieves uniform authentication, authorization, and administration. With our expert support you're not merely guarding against threats – you're anticipating them with a balanced, risk-based approach appropriate for your business.

Zero Trust is a journey.

From NIST SP 800-207 Zero Trust Architecture:

Implementing Zero Trust Architecture is a journey rather than a wholesale replacement of infrastructure or processes. An organization should seek to incrementally implement Zero Trust principles, process changes, and technology solutions that protect its highest value data assets.

Design Principles

We follow Zero Trust Design Principles espoused by NIST and industry leaders.

  • Zero Trust needs to align with business outcomes, not prevent the business from operating effectively.

  • Start with the thing you want to protect. Identify the workflows, who would be doing them, and what they would be doing (apply Kipling method).

  • Knowing who/what needs access is key. In Zero Trust, access can only be obtained through evaluation and assignment of a policy to an identity.

  • All traffic going to and from a protect surface must be inspected and logged for malicious content and unauthorized activity, up through Layer 7.

Start small and iterate.

Begin with a “learning protect surface”, work through the process, then move onto a “practice protect surface”.

Once fluency is established, apply to the most critical protect surfaces in the organization and work backwards from there.

Define the Protect surface

Map the transaction flows

Architect a zero trust environment

Create zero trust policies

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Monitor & maintain

  • Zero Trust doesn’t require new tools to get started - you can begin with what you have.

  • Massive Scale Consulting guides you with an incremental, agile approach to Zero Trust.

  • Continue to build on your current investments, uniform authentication, authorization and administration. "You must be 'this tall' for Zero Trust"

  • Start where your need is the highest or most urgent and continue to build with solutions that are modular.

Every Zero Trust journey is unique.

A Zero Trust strategy cuts across typical boundaries - identities, applications, data, operations, and policy. With such a broad scope, your Zero Trust strategy is intrinsically unique to your business.

  • Security Assessment

    There is a baseline of cybersecurity competence that an organization must have before it becomes possible to deploy a Zero Trust Architecture. We work with you on IAM, networks, assets, and technical capabilities to develop a clear picture of security posture and Zero Trust readiness, along with a plan to get there.

  • Zero Trust Strategy

    A Zero Trust strategy is unique to each business. We work with you to produce the desired target state, articulating the necessary components such as Policy Enforcement Points, Policy Decision Points, Identity Platform, and how your Zero Trust Architecture fits into the broader organizational security landscape.

  • Zero Trust Execution

    Using our design principles, we work with your teams through our methodology to implement the Zero Trust Architecture, starting with pre-requisites then protect surfaces. This results in expertise within your organization using an iterative, outcome-based approach with increasing coverage across protect surfaces.