Wake-Up Call for Businesses

Hank Schless is senior manager of security solutions at Lookout.

“The value of sensitive data is increasing, and as a byproduct of that, the long-term damage to a company that experiences a breach is getting ever more costly,” he said. “The numbers found in this report should be a wake-up call to anyone who thinks data security and infrastructure integrity can take a back seat to other priorities.”

Schless said it’s important to think about the challenges of zero trust in a realistic way.

“For example, you can approach access control with the mindset that just because a user has the right username and password doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the actual user,” he said. “Approaching it this way will help you think about how to implement and evolve a context-aware approach to access that could combine multifactor authentication (MFA) with a continuous evaluation of user risk.”