Blog Security Akamai Named an Overall Leader for Zero Trust Network Access Jim Black is a Senior Product Marketing Manager in Akamai's Enterprise Security Group. He has spent his entire career in technology, with roles in manufacturing, customer support, business development, product management, public relations, and marketing. The Zero Trust model is a strategic approach to cybersecurity that secures an organization by removing implicit trust. Instead of assuming everything behind the corporate firewall is safe, the Zero Trust approach applies least-privilege access to every request, regardless of where it originates. \r\n Zero Trust has become top of mind for organizations that need to more effectively adapt to the ever-changing modern environment. These organizations are looking for a new security model that embraces the hybrid workforce and protects users, devices, and apps wherever they are located. Sorting through all the choices, however, is complicated.…