Zero Trust Creator Says Model Holds Firm Against AI-Assisted Attacks

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Is zero trust still effective in the AI era? A new book from John Kindervag says yes, but that assumes it is correctly implemented.

John Kindervag introduced the concept of zero trust in a Forrester Research report titled No More Chewy Centers: Introducing the Zero Trust Model of Information Security published in 2010. Since then, the concept has become a foundational precept within cybersecurity. Fifteen years later, he was asked to write a new book about zero trust in the age of AI.

The big question is whether 15 years-old security principles remain valid in the face of new AI-assisted threats.

The book response to this question, Cyber Resilience at Machine Speed: The Zero Trust Model for the AI Era, is now published. Kindervag decided not to write it alone, inviting individual experts to contribute individual chapters on the primary principles. The result is a somewhat disjointed book but...

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