{"id":18125,"date":"2021-10-14T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/14\/okta-study-in-a-post-pandemic-world-organisations-in-asia-pacific-prioritise-zero-trust-security-more-than-other-regions-but-lag-in-implementation\/"},"modified":"2021-10-14T06:40:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T06:40:00","slug":"okta-study-in-a-post-pandemic-world-organisations-in-asia-pacific-prioritise-zero-trust-security-more-than-other-regions-but-lag-in-implementation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/14\/okta-study-in-a-post-pandemic-world-organisations-in-asia-pacific-prioritise-zero-trust-security-more-than-other-regions-but-lag-in-implementation\/","title":{"rendered":"Okta study: In a post-pandemic world, organisations in Asia Pacific prioritise Zero Trust Security more than other regions; but lag in implementation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media&#13;<br \/>\nOutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 14 October 2021 &#8211;<b>\u00a0 <\/b>Across Asia Pacific,&#13;<br \/>\nthe unprecedented mass migration of organizations&#8217; IT infrastructure to cloud&#13;<br \/>\nand digital systems in the past year has compressed years of planned digital&#13;<br \/>\ntransformation into a matter of months \u2013 or even weeks. <\/p>\n<p>While this agility is impressive, the addition of countless new devices,&#13;<br \/>\nnetworks and applications to organizations&#8217; IT ecosystems within a short period&#13;<br \/>\nof time has increased businesses&#8217; vulnerability to threat actors, who now have&#13;<br \/>\nmore avenues to exploit. <\/p>\n<p>The need for <b>Zero Trust Security<\/b> \u2013&#13;<br \/>\nwhich emphasises a &#8220;never trust, always verify&#8221; approach through continuous assessment&#13;<br \/>\nof user access privileges for individual resources \u2013 has thus become crucial,&#13;<br \/>\nespecially with greater adoption of cloud-based technologies.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>To learn more about how organizations in the region are approaching Zero Trust&#13;<br \/>\nSecurity today, and in a post-pandemic world where hybrid working becomes a&#13;<br \/>\nnorm, leading independent identity provider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.okta.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2021-08\/The-State-of-Zero-Trust-Security-Asia-Pacific-2021.pdf\">Okta<\/a> surveyed 400 security leaders in Asia&#13;<br \/>\nPacific, as part of a study \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.okta.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2021-08\/The-State-of-Zero-Trust-Security-Asia-Pacific-2021.pdf\">The State of Zero Trust Security in Asia Pacific&#13;<br \/>\n2021.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/><\/b>Notably, APAC organizations prioritise Zero Trust&#13;<br \/>\nSecurity the most \u2013 COVID-19 has accelerated Zero Trust Security as a priority&#13;<br \/>\nin 77% of APAC organizations \u2013\u00a0 higher&#13;<br \/>\nthan EMEA (76%), and North America (74%).<br \/><b><br \/><\/b>Despite the emphasis on Zero Trust Security, at the time of the survey APAC&#13;<br \/>\norganizations were clearly lagging their counterparts in EMEA and North America&#13;<br \/>\n\u2013 only 13% had already implemented a Zero Trust Security strategy, compared to&#13;<br \/>\n20% of organizations each in EMEA and North America.<b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The greatest challenges for Asia Pacific organisations in adopting a Zero&#13;<br \/>\nTrust Security infrastructure include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Talent\/skill shortage (44%)<\/li>\n<li>Cost concerns (22.3%) <\/li>\n<li>Technology gaps (14.3%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Organisations&#13;<br \/>\nacross Asia Pacific have practiced hybrid working arrangements for the past&#13;<br \/>\nyear and a half. Today, most business leaders recognise the value of such&#13;<br \/>\narrangements in driving long term business growth post pandemic, and are&#13;<br \/>\ncommitted to sustaining them,&#8221; said Graham Sowden, General Manager, Asia&#13;<br \/>\nPacific, Okta.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, it is imperative to the long-term growth of these businesses that&#13;<br \/>\nthey continue to be vigilant in anticipating new threats that emerge in this&#13;<br \/>\nnew digital landscape, by continually assessing their current IT&#13;<br \/>\ninfrastructure, and making strategic investments to stay ahead of threat&#13;<br \/>\nactors,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p>The study introduces Okta&#8217;s Identity Access Management Curve, which reviews&#13;<br \/>\norganizations&#8217; identity-driven security practices on everything from the type&#13;<br \/>\nof resources they manage, to how they provision and deprovision users.<\/p>\n<p>Adoption in APAC is promising \u2013 Stage 1 implementations such as single sign-on&#13;<br \/>\nfor employees, along with multi-factor authentications have been implemented at&#13;<br \/>\n84% of organizations. <\/p>\n<p>However, when it comes to Stage 2 strategies and solutions, there is room for&#13;<br \/>\nimprovement \u2013 for instance, only 35% have implemented secure access to APIs.&#13;<br \/>\nAdditionally, while only 3% of organizations have context-based access&#13;<br \/>\npolicies, 40% intend to implement it within the next 12-18 months. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is promising that most APAC organisations have the fundamentals covered,&#8221; Sowden&#13;<br \/>\nadds. &#8220;But the reality is that threat actors will only get savvier and find new&#13;<br \/>\navenues to exploit vulnerabilities. Adopting advanced measures like&#13;<br \/>\npasswordless technologies <sdt sdttag=\"goog_rdk_0\" id=\"2082562225\">\u2212 <\/sdt>such as&#13;<br \/>\nbiometrics and contextual factors, for instance \u2013 will help businesses&#13;<br \/>\nincrease security and tackle data breaches more effectively.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-10-14\/99078\/okta-study-in-a-post-pandemic-world-organisations-in-asia-pacific-prioritise-zero-trust-security-more-than-other-regions-but-lag-in-implementation\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE &#8211;\u00a0Media&#13; OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 14 October 2021 &#8211;\u00a0 Across Asia Pacific,&#13; the unprecedented mass migration of organizations&#8217; IT infrastructure to cloud&#13; and digital systems in the past year has compressed years of planned digital&#13; transformation into a matter of months \u2013 or even weeks. 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