Nat Natraj, Asif Ali Several recent events have made Zero Trust security a mandate for companies, governments, and non-profits. The US Government has taken a decisive leadership in this area as depicted by the following initiatives. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency…

“Security as code: The best (and maybe only) path to securing cloud applications” Welcome to Zero Trust Data Security! Nat Natraj “Managing security as code enables companies to create value in the cloud securely”, the McKinsey article authors further opined. We have come to respect McKinsey’s pundit-like viewpoints in “board…

Don’t let it become your Plutonium Welcome to Zero Trust Data Security! Nat Natraj , Nagi Prabhu I presume you were shocked by Amazon’s fine of $888M for EU Data Violations. Granted this amount is < 0.5% …

The perimeter is porous.. identity is the new perimeter Nat Natraj The last few years has seen a tectonic shift in the velocity and sophistication of software development and deployment models. The following depicts this shift. In this move to multi-cloud architectures, it has been established that we live in…

Nat Natraj If you are like me, I am sure you have been devastated to see your Public Cloud Computing bill. Your teenager’s credit card bill or phone bill pales in comparison! Hence it is with great interest that I read two amazing articles [1, 2] on this subject from…

Nat Natraj “Attackers Were Inside SolarWinds in January 2019” said CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna [1] in May 2021. The attackers were in eight months longer than previously believed. SolarWinds’ original timeline put the first signs of infiltration at about September 2019. …

Data Provenance, Data Security and Zero Trust Nat Natraj Back in 2017, The Economist [1] published a story titled, “The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data”. Looking back, it was quite a prophetic statement. Companies have used Data for strategic purposes (customer relationship marketing, product/service strategy…

Nat Natraj, co-founder, CEO, AccuKnox While the concept of Zero Trust is not new, it has become a strategic imperative in the post-SolarWinds breach world we live in. The following article outlines key concepts involved in Zero Trust Cloud Security. …