DATA security is also one of the major concerns of remote working which has intensified during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Data Privacy Act of 2012, or Republic Act 10173, stipulates that any company with at least 250 employees or who can access the data of at least 1,000 people are required to appoint a Data Protection Officer who will monitor the company’s data security, create and implement privacy policies, and report breaches when they happen.
In response, California-based Pulse Secure Llc., in partnership with local technology company Radenta Technologies Inc., has recently introduced Pulse Zero Trust Access (PZTA) to answer the growing need in the local market to provide a secure environment for a flexible work place.
Radenta said PZTA is the ideal tool that will enable a Data Protection Officer to accomplish this task.
Meanwhile, in its latest survey, “Cybersecurity: The Human Challenge”, United Kingdom-based network security firm Sophos found out that 40 percent of the Philippine organizations disclosed that recruiting and retaining skilled IT security professionals is a challenge and 48 percent plan to exclusively outsource IT security in 2022.
Radenta added PZTA is a comprehensive, multi-tenant, Zero Trust, Secure Access service for enterprises of any size. It has a central ZTA Controller hosted by Pulse Secure. The ZTA Gateway can be deployed closest to applications either on premises or on private or public clouds. This proximity optimizes user experience, reduces latency and enables hybrid IT deployment at scale. Since encrypted applications traffic only flows between ZTA Clients and ZTA Gateways, customers gain full data privacy and data sovereignty.
PZTA enables multiple users to access public, private and multi-cloud applications and data center resources from any location. As a cloud-based system, it provides easy, direct and secure access. It also works for organizations with pure cloud environments or those just migrating applications from the data center to the cloud. PZTA authenticates and authorizes user identity and device security posture for compliance before establishing a session. It uses a built-in User and Entity Behavior Analytics to continuously assess each session for risk and trust. Proprietary risk scoring algorithms identify noncompliant, malicious and anomalous activity, providing administrators end-to-end visibility and expedited threat mitigation. As a cloud-native service, PTZA can be deployed in a matter of hours.
Michael Waring, Ivanti vice president for security solutions for Asia Pacific and Japan, attests to the value of PZTA. “Pulse Zero Trust Access exemplifies our ongoing commitment to innovate while maximizing deployment flexibility, scale, interoperability and investment protection for companies of all sizes,” he said in a press statement.