Jakarta, INTI– The world of technology continues to evolve rapidly, and along with it, cyber threats are becoming more sophisticated. Incredible advances in technology that make our work life easier and more flexible also create opportunities for malicious actors seeking more effective ways to launch cyberattacks. In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to enhance cyberattacks, a Zero Trust security strategy is increasingly essential to protect organizations from various threats.
Why Zero Trust?
Zero Trust is a security approach that combines defenses across identity, endpoints, networks, applications, data, and infrastructure with comprehensive security policies. This strategy provides deep protection across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. According to Gartner®, "AI advancements can deliver malicious code, facilitate phishing and social engineering, enabling better intrusions, increased credibility, and more damaging attacks." With increasingly complex threats, a more proactive approach is required to safeguard organizations.
Microsoft Innovations: Entra Suite and Azure Sentinel
Microsoft announced the general availability of Microsoft Entra Suite, the industry's most comprehensive secure access solution for the workforce. Additionally, Microsoft introduced the general availability of Microsoft Azure Sentinel, a unified security operations platform that provides integrated threat protection and posture management. These innovations make it easier to secure access, identify and close critical security gaps, detect cyber threats, reduce response times, and streamline operations.
Microsoft Entra Suite enables organizations to unify policies across identity, endpoints, as well as private and public networks with a unified access policy engine. Our unified security operations platform consolidates all security signals generated by your environment, normalizes, analyzes, and uses them to proactively defend against cyber threats.
Benefits of Microsoft Entra Suite
According to recent data, 66% of digital attack vectors involve insecure identity credentials. Microsoft Entra Suite plays a critical role in preventing security breaches by unifying identity and network access security. This approach provides everything needed to verify users, prevent overprivileged permissions, enhance detection, and apply granular access controls for all users and resources.
Implementation and Ease of Management
When implemented alone, neither identity nor network security can address all possible access scenarios. Microsoft Entra Suite unifies identity and network access security, a new and crucial approach to Zero Trust security. It provides everything you need to verify users, prevent overprivileged permissions, enhance detection, and apply granular access controls for all users and resources.
Its native integration facilitates collaboration between identity and network teams. It also reduces the workload of your IT administrators, as they can easily manage and enforce granular identity and network access policies in one place. Additionally, Microsoft Entra's skills in Microsoft Copilot for Security help identity professionals respond to identity risks more quickly.
Simplicity and Efficiency
Using Microsoft Entra Suite ensures the least privilege access for all users accessing all resources and applications, including AI. Identity professionals can automate the access lifecycle from the day new employees join their organization, through all their role changes, until they leave. No matter how long or diverse the employee journey is, Microsoft Entra ID Governance ensures they have the right access only to the applications and resources they need, helping prevent lateral movement by cyber attackers in case of a breach.
Enhanced User Experience
Employees enjoy faster and easier onboarding experiences, quicker and more secure logins through passwordless authentication, single sign-on for all applications, and superior performance. They can use self-service portals to request access to relevant packages, manage approvals and access reviews, and view the history of requests and approvals. Face Check with Microsoft Entra Verified ID allows real-time user identity verification, simplifying remote onboarding and passwordless account self-service recovery.
Cost Efficiency and Reduction
With Microsoft Entra Suite, organizations can retire several on-premises security tools, such as traditional VPNs, on-premises Secure Web Gateways, and on-premises identity governance. This security solution is designed to meet the needs of modern cloud-first, AI-first environments, providing more effective and efficient security.
Invitation to Participate in INTI 2024
Join us on July 31, 2024, to learn how to simplify your Zero Trust strategy with the latest comprehensive security innovations. Register now and don't miss the opportunity to attend the Indonesia Technology and Innovation Expo 2024 at JI-EXPO on August 12-14, 2024 (INTI 2024). INTI is the largest technology and innovation exhibition in Indonesia. For more information, visit this link.