Zero Trust Starts with Secure Access
Never trust; always verify. A zero trust model establishes trust in users and devices through authentication and continuous monitoring of each access attempt, with custom security policies that protect every application.
How to Implement Zero Trust
In order to implement a zero trust architecture, organizations must meet four functional requirements: establish trust, enforce trust-based access, continuously verify trust, and respond to changes in trust. Duo’s user-focused approach provides each of these functions in a way that frustrates attackers and not users, so you can move towards zero trust with zero friction.
- Duo authenticates users and verifies devices to establish trust
- Duo enables access and applies powerful and granular adaptive policies to enforce trust-based access
- Duo provides risk-based authentication to continuously verify trust
- Duo provides alerts, logs, and anomalous login detection to allow organizations to detect and respond to changes in trust
Why Duo for Zero Trust
Provides Strong Security
Duo provides a critical foundation for zero trust strategy. It ensures that only the right users with the right devices are accessing the right applications, aligning with the zero trust concept of “least privilege.”
Continuous trust assessment with risk-based authentication adjusts security requirements in response to risk signals in real-time to help ensure secure access.
Enables High Productivity
Duo enables zero trust security that doesn’t get in the way of users. With its simple and intuitive interface and capabilities, Duo provides a frictionless authentication experience.
The user-friendly administrator dashboard helps IT and security teams gain deep visibility into all devices attempting to access resources, enabling efficient zero trust security policy creation and fast incident response.
Delivers Unmatched Value
Duo simplifies zero trust implementation with an all-in-one solution that includes strong MFA, passwordless, single sign-on, VPN-less remote access, trusted endpoint verification, and more, that works with any organization’s environment.
Duo is lightning fast to deploy and can significantly reduce IT helpdesk overhead and costs thanks to user self-service features such as enrollment, password resets, password management, and endpoint remediation.
The Value of Zero Trust at Cisco
$3.4M annual savings in employee productivity
As a result of 410,000 fewer VPN authentications per year.
$500K annual savings in IT helpdesk support costs
With <1% of users contacting the IT helpdesk vs. 7% for typical security technology rollouts.
86K potential compromises averted per month
86,000 vulnerable devices self-remediated/month based on 5.76M device health checks/month.
Moving to a zero trust model is an opportunity to move into a much better user workflow. Plus, when the geopolitics brought us new problems, zero trust from Duo was something that we were able to leverage in order to match the risks that we saw with the appropriate security controls.
— Brad Arkin, SVP, Chief Security and Trust Officer, Cisco
Five Phases to Implement Zero Trust
We have developed a plan with five iterative phases for how you can implement zero trust for user and device access to applications. Learn how Duo can help your business with all five phases to accomplish a zero trust architecture.
Phase 1: Establish User Trust
Leverage phishing-resistant MFA to verify users truly are who they say they are. Make it easy for users to strongly authenticate – on managed and unmanaged devices, and whether they’re employees or contractors (e.g., BYOD).
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Phase 2: Verify Device Trust
Apply device posture checks and block unwanted access with a trusted endpoint policy. Guide users in fixing device trust issues on their own before gaining access to apps, and without having to call the helpdesk.
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Phase 3: Enable Access to Applications
Shrink the attack surface by reducing password usage with passwordless SSO and make it faster and more convenient for users to get to the apps they need with VPN-less access (e.g., ZTNA) – whether SaaS-based or private.
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Phase 4: Enforce Contextual Access
Deploy risk-based authentication, increase device visibility, and adapt access dynamically based on user or device behavior. Step up access based on increased risk and ease up access requirements based on lowered risk. Respect the user’s privacy and productivity by anonymizing location data and eliminating unnecessary decisions.
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Phase 5: Verify Trust Continuously
Continuous trusted access relies on innovations like Wi-Fi profile analysis and session trust analysis. By leveraging open protocols to communicate signals and react to changes in risk, session trust analysis brings visibility and control to a traditionally opaque surface: risk remediation during the established session.
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- Continuous Trusted Access
Five Easy Steps to Secure your Users and Devices
Take control of your digital safety. With a strategic five-phase plan, you'll learn to secure user and device applications efficiently. The "MFA to Zero Trust Solution Guide" offers invaluable insights into cybersecurity techniques, empowering you to contribute to a more secure digital world. Begin your journey towards cybersecurity mastery today.
How to go from MFA to Zero Trust
Jumpstart your zero trust program today with our five-phase plan for securing user and device access to applications.
