Why Zero Trust Framework Adoption has Emerged During and After Covid-19 Pandemic

ABSTRACT

The rise of COVID-19 brought an unprecedented change in the way people lived. It left several people in a work-from-home situation. This Paper aims to investigate the recent works which applied Zero Trust and the reason that this framework adoption has emerged during and after the Pandemic. In this regard, a questionnaire was prepared, and its results are reported. According to its results, with Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) gaining skyrocket popularity and trust, for around 60% corporates, ZT Access is planned for future, while for around 30% corporates, the project is in pipeline. None of the organizations surveyed have the ZTA in place. 14% of organizations are uninterested in adopting ZTA. Plus, in past 2 years, the percentage of north American organizations having a ZTA on the plans to establish one in the next 12–18 months has shot up. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.