Palo Alto Networks and Ataya Harmony Universal Connectivity for Zero Trust Security

Industrial OT, enterprise IT and security teams face considerable challenges to securely maintain complex network environments while meeting ever-changing business demands. Not only are new devices and applications being added on a regular basis, but networks are evolving to include different access technologies like Private 5G. Oftentimes, these newer networks are deployed as parallel networks, separate from pre-existing networks. This multiplies management complexity and potential attack surfaces as each disparate network has separate management and security solutions with no common access policies. Network and security teams must manually correlate issues between these networks or build complex integrations to aid this effort, while further increasing management overhead. In the end, the overall security still has unknown cracks, as a proper Zero Trust model only exists when all access to networks (regardless of access type, device, or individual) is governed by the same security system.