Defending against security threats is a full-time job. The question is: Whose job is it? Our cybersecurity landscape is in constant flux, with more users having increased access to corporate data, assets, APIs, and other entry points into the organization.

Zero Trust is a security model — a strategy for protecting an organization’s IT assets, including data, services and applications. The Zero Trust model is built upon research more than a decade ago by analysts at Forrester, and it is now recommended by many security experts and vendors, including Microsoft. Zero Trust is a security architecture model that requires no implicit trust to be given in any quarter.

There’s a natural tension within most companies: marketing wants to get stuff out, while IT and security are focused on protecting the business. These waters between marketing and security can be treacherous, and a recent challenge we observed in a large U.S.-based northeastern bank, illustrates the issue well. Like many financial institutions, mobile and web banking are a critical and core component of the business model.

Best practices for securing an AWS environment have been well-documented and generally accepted, such as AWS’s guidance. However, organizations may still find it challenging on how to begin applying this guidance to their specific environments. In this blog series, we’ll analyze anonymized data from Netskope customers that include security settings of 650,000 entities from 1,143 AWS accounts across several hundred organizations.

As a managed service provider, you can never sit still. Change is constant, whether it’s the technology, business needs, or clients’ expectations. And while MSPs are accustomed to the churn, this time it’s different. Businesses are digitizing their assets and moving to the cloud, governments continue to layer on more data regulations, security threats are on the rise, and the pandemic has turned traditional office culture on its head.