Two great changes have happened in IT in the past years: cloud adoption and the transition to remote work. Each of these changes has required IT and DevOps teams to shift their perspectives and adopt new methodologies and technologies. But these changes have also impacted the state of cybersecurity. Organizations are now vulnerable to new types of cyberattacks. Ransomware attacks, for example, doubled in frequency in 2021, and ransom demands were the highest ever to be demanded, sometimes reaching tens of millions per attack.

These IT and security earthquakes require a new cybersecurity way of thinking. To many, that new way is zero trust. According to Forrester: