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AI-Tech Interview with Eric Sugar, President at ProServeIT

Posted 2024-02-28 06:59:12

Eric, could you please introduce yourself and elaborate on your role as president at ProserveIT?

Hello, I’m Eric Sugar, President at ProServeIT, my focus is on helping clients set their strategic direction with regards to technology that enables their business. Eric’s passion is teaching how technology can be leveraged by businesses to enable growth and added value. As President at ProServeIT I support our clients and team in creatively deploying and using technology.

Eric holds a Bachelor of Arts (Economics and Math) from the University of Toronto.

I’m an avid rower, cyclist and hockey player who can put a golf ball in the woods better than most.

Could you share some best practices for organisations looking to adopt ZTA? What are the essential steps and considerations in the implementation process?

As for best practices for organizations looking to adopt ZTA, some recommendations include assessing the current network architecture and identifying the assets, services, workflows, and data that need to be protected, defining the policies and controls that govern access to each resource based on the Zero Trust principles, and deploying the ZTA components that enforce the policies and controls across the network.

Can you provide examples or case studies of organisations that have successfully implemented ZTA? What challenges did they face, and how did ZTA help address those challenges?

There are real-world case studies that show Zero Trust in action. For example, a shipping company that operates a fleet of cargo vessels across different regions improved its cybersecurity posture by adopting ZTA. The company identified its key resources, classified them according to their criticality and sensitivity levels, and defined its policies and controls for accessing each resource based on the Zero Trust principles. The company then deployed the ZTA components that enforced the policies and controls across the network, and monitored and evaluated the performance and effectiveness of the ZTA components regularly.

Are there any notable industries or sectors where ZTA has shown exceptional promise or results? What can other organisations learn from these success stories?

Transportation, Finance, Healthcare businesses have all been leveraging ZTA and when implemented they are better able to protect their organization from breach. Other organizations can look at Identity Access Management as a first workload that they can use ZTA to pilot and learn.

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