Siemens said the Verizon solution is designed to meet the requirements of its Zero Trust ideology of ‘never trust, but always verify’
Verizon Business this week announced that it is providing Siemens with Zero Trust network capabilities. The deployment will take place at the company’s smaller office sites and will ensure that all employee devices are authenticated, authorized and continuously validated before given access to any critical data.
“With Verizon, we found a new partner to provide secure, internet-based network access for our simple office sites,” commented Elmar Spreitzer, head of IT Digital Foundation at Siemens. “The innovative connectivity solution is designed to meet the requirements of our Zero Trust program where we never trust, but always verify.”
A security survey conducted by Verizon revealed that more than 70% of organizations agreed that remote working had adversely affected their cybersecurity and increased the burden on security teams. Zero Trust capabilities, said the carrier, can help.
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) provide enterprises with secure remote worker access, but they also present challenges in scale, flexibility and efficacy as more information is in the cloud and workers move away from the perimeter of the enterprise network. Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) has emerged as an alternative that follows the Principle of Least Privilege, which dictates that the user be given access only to what they need to accomplish their task. This prevents users from having visibility into other applications and services that they lack the appropriate permission to access.
“Every company needs a secure work infrastructure but balancing security risks while striving to deliver a user-friendly, digital working experience continues to remain the challenge of IT departments,” said Sanjiv Gossain, EMEA vice president at Verizon Business. “That’s where an intelligent network can make underlying architectures more nimble by managing traffic and making operations more efficient.”
The Zero Trust deployment builds on Verizon’s network-as-a-service foundation and supports three of its five vectors of growth: private networks, mobile edge compute and business solutions.
