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What role does authentication and access management play in zero trust security?

What role does authentication and access management play in zero trust security?

Zero Trust security is widely accepted as being a security model based on the principle of ‘trust no one, verify everywhere’ – i.e., no entity can be trusted. When applications are being delivered from multiple clouds and delivery points – authentication plays a key role because the access point becomes the front line of security. The access point is the entryway for a user to access enterprise information / applications.

Authentication is commonly executed with a user name and password. However, a user name and password combination is easily breached.

Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) is a common factor in a Zero Trust policy to validate a user’s identity before allowing access to enterprise information / applications.

To increase the security of the Zero Trust network, Thales adds access management to test the user’s identity against a larger set of adpative and contextual attributes.