Zero Trust Security

Reduce risk to critical assets with a Zero Trust approach to security

Zero Trust Security Model

Introduced by Forrester in 2010, the concept of Zero Trust security is not new. Zero Trust security proposes a fundamentally different model than what Forrester calls the “moat and castle” strategy that ignores threats and compromised assets inside the castle. It assumes that every user, device, system or connection is already compromised (by default) whether they are inside or outside of the network.

Zero Trust is not a technology, and it is not a product. There are no silver bullets in achieving a Zero Trust security posture. It is a strategic, architectural approach to security enabled by technology. Simply put, it provides CISOs and other security leaders with a more rigorous security posture for today’s world of escalating risk.

Forrester Zero Trust eXtended (ZTX) Framework

To help you apply Zero Trust principles to your enterprise, Forrester developed the Zero Trust eXtended (ZTX) framework. This framework lists seven components where Zero Trust should fit in the enterprise.

How Guardicore Centra Aligns with the Forrester ZTX Framework

Data

Data Security

Forrester’s ZTX framework helps you align to the principles of categorization, isolation and encryption.

Guardicore helps with:

Zero-trust policy based on asset data classification
Data breach detection
API for data classification resources
Violation alerts on data exfiltration, malware and ransomware

Workloads

Workload Security

Forrester’s ZTX framework helps you align to a solution that secures your workloads to enable business operations.

Guardicore helps with:

Policy control at speed and massive scale
Workload security via network segmentation
Process-level policy enforcement
Workload security via deception, reputation and FIM
Security follows the workload across any infrastructure
Coverage across any infrastructure including hybrid and legacy systems
Container security including visibility and enforcement

Network

People

Forrester’s ZTX framework helps align your solution to the principle of ‘Never Trust, always verify’, to ensure that people access only what they’re entitled to and no more.

Guardicore helps with:

Identity-based segmentation
Maps provide full visibility into assets
Visibility into laptops, desktops and VDI environments
Context-based violations
Remote access control using identity-based policies
Lateral movement elimination based on reduced attack surface

Devices

Automation & Orchestration

Forrester’s ZTX framework helps you understand how a solution can automate and orchestrate IT operations across the organization and have more control across heterogeneous systems.

Guardicore helps with:

Orchestration – Guardicore integrates with:

Orchestration tools – Chef, Puppet, Ansible
Container orchestration – Kubernetes, Docker
Public cloud APIs: Azure, AWS, Oracle, GCP

Automation

Automated response, such as machine quarantine or specific flow blocking when a threat is detected

Threat Intelligence feeds

Threat intelligence feed curated from various sources – commercial, developed in-house and user provided. Visit our Cyber Threat Intelligence Feed.

Visibility & Analytics

Forrester’s ZTX framework helps you understand the importance of useful analytics to a Zero Trust-based solution and helps eliminate blind spots of systems and infrastructure.

Guardicore helps with:

Process-level visibility into user environments and applications
Deep investigation of each individual flow with full context including process, user, hash, cmd line, PID and more
Visibility of traffic to/from both managed and unknown assets
Deep forensic analysis and incident response
Directly from map: Allow or block specific flows or classify assets to apply different security policies i.e. “quarantine” or “prevent non-admin RDP access”
Simplified auditing

Manageability & Usability

Forrester’s ZTX framework guides you through the manageability and ease-of use aspects on the way to achieve Zero Trust.

Achieve Zero Trust segmentation within hours
A single, highly-consolidated UI into Guardicore Centra’s main functions: maps, incidents and policy creation wizards
Overlay solution with no networking or infrastructure changes required
Apply fast, Zero Trust segmentation to legacy and hybrid systems
Integration with firewall management tools

APIs

Forrester’s ZTX framework helps you understand how to use APIs to create policies to secure the workloads across your enterprise.

Guardicore helps with:

REST API for all common functions

Create policies based on observed traffic
Automate workload classification importing
Export aggregated data for various reports
Extensive REST API documentation and Python SDK enable users to rapidly automate custom tasks

*More than 25% of Guardicore customers use tools that leverage Guardicore’s REST API.

Accelerate Zero Trust adoption with faster and easier segmentation

Classify workloads and data

Map application dependencies and traffic flows.

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Many organizations lack visibility into how applications work. Visibility is a cornerstone for Zero Trust security. Centra classifies assets and maps application dependencies that are critical to create segmentation policy for Zero Trust microperimeters.

Prevent lateral movement

Contain breaches behind the perimeter before they cause damage.

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Flat and under-segmented networks create opportunities for attackers to move laterally and dwell undetected for long periods of time. Centra provides micro-segmentation and breach detection capabilities to prevent the spread of breaches and detect them faster.

Simplify and accelerate compliance

Avoid complex audits and stay compliant.

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Ongoing compliance management and audits can be a complex and time-consuming process. Applying a Zero Trust approach to segmentation of the network and critical assets with Centra reduces the scope of compliance initiatives such as PCI DSS and SWIFT.

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“We were moving to another data center. We needed to complete it in 30 days. However, the technology teams would not have the necessary time to map all the existing firewall rules.

We had environment segregation based on the firewall, but when moving to the new environment, we would have none of that because time wouldn’t allow it.

Now we’re in the process of refining the rules, not only making sure that the rules are working correctly.

Today, I can trust nothing. I cannot trust my mobile phone on my network, I can’t trust my third-party that comes with his notebook and connects to my network, I can’t trust the notebook that my employee takes home and so on. so, it’s a matter of Zero Trust.

Guardicore’s technical team is helping us, but it is much simpler when everything is working with a few simple clicks.”

Alex Amorim
Information Security Manager, Cogna Group

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5 Critical Steps to Enable Zero Trust with Guardicore Centra

1. Map the Connections and Flows of Sensitive, Business-Critical Data

Gaining total Visibility into applications, workloads and devices is critical to a Zero Trust solution. Guardicore provides real-time and historical maps to identify sensitive connections and flows across any infrastructure. These maps are required to fully understand application dependencies that will allow you to create secure Zero Trust micropermeters.

2. Architect Your Zero Trust Microperimeters

Guardicore provides automatic Zero Trust recommendations to help security teams rapidly design secure perimeters.

3. Use a Software-Based Approach to Enforce Zero Trust Micro-Segmentation

Fast, effective micro-segmentation is a core element of Zero Trust. Software-defined segmentation offers a more agile approach to network segmentation than internal firewalls and VLANs. Guardicore provides a software-defined segmentation solution that is decoupled from the network, allows segmentation down to the application level and ensures your policies follow the workload across any infrastructure.

4. Embrace Security Automation and Orchestration

Rich built-in integration with orchestration tools simplifies deployment and automation in any complex environment. There are tens of other commercial and open-source integrations available and we provide an extensive, well documented open REST API allowing customers to create their own integration as they wish, helping organizations build an effective Zero Trust policy.

5. Beyond Micro-Segmentation: Workload Security

In addition to strong network micro-segmentation capabilities, Guardicore provides methods to detect malicious behavior, including a proprietary Threat Intelligence Firewall to detect and block malicious traffic to and from attackers, dynamic deception to identify and analyze malicious lateral movement, and signature-based reputation analysis to detect malicious processes and traffic.

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