Q&A: Security Expert Paul Kaspian on Why Healthcare Needs Zero Trust

An evolving threat landscape and an increase in remote users have made zero trust a necessity for many healthcare organizations to protect their systems and patient data. Security threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated, presenting new challenges for healthcare organizations as they engage in digital transformation. Protecting patient data in this environment requires IT teams to focus on a holistic strategy while still paying attention to the details.

Paul Kaspian, principal product marketing manager for zero trust at Palo Alto Networks, explained in a CDW Tech Talk how the security landscape is changing and how healthcare organizations can implement a zero-trust architecture to better protect their systems and data. Zero trust is the idea that you want to eliminate as much implicit trust as possible. Some of the legacy ways we were using to connect remote users weren’t the best or most secure ways of doing that.

As many folks moved into a work-from-home format, zero-trust network access where organizations essentially are trying to eliminate that implicit trust, even though someone is coming in with credentials or they’ve authenticated has become important.