The core concept of zero trust is simple: assume everything is hostile by default. In contrast, a zero-trust approach treats all traffic, even if it's already inside the perimeter, as hostile. For example, workloads are blocked from communicating until they are validated by a set of attributes, such as a fingerprint or identity. Identity-based validation policies result in stronger security that travels with the workload wherever it communicates—in a public cloud, a hybrid environment, a container, or an on-premises network architecture. In contrast, a zero-trust approach treats all traffic, even if it's already inside the perimeter, as hostile. For example, workloads are blocked from communicating until they are validated by a set of attributes, such as a fingerprint or identity. Identity-based validation policies result in stronger security that travels with the workload wherever it communicates—in a public cloud, a hybrid environment, a container, or an on-premises network architecture.
Because protection is environment-agnostic, zero trust secures applications and services even if they communicate across network environments, requiring no architectural changes or policy updates. Zero trust securely connects users, devices, and applications using business policies over any network, enabling safe digital transformation.
But this makes it a challenging task for businesses to find the right solution provider who could find the exact requirements. That's where GRC Outlook magazine is bridging the gap with the Top 10 Zero-trust solution providers in the 2022 listing. The companies listed below were selected by a panel of experts.
Ralph Wagner
CEO
Mercer Island, WA
axinom.com
Axinom provides software products for content-first platforms. Media, aerospace, and mobility companies around the world use Axinom products to solve the complex challenges of preparation, management, security, and delivery of content and software services.
Stefan Lederer
Co-Founder & CEO
Klagenfurt, Austria
bitmovin.com
Bitmovin was founded in 2012 to solve a core need in the market – to create best-in-class video development solutions that enable customers to create memorable digital experiences, worldwide. As a company, our vision is to shape the future of video. We support this with our mission which is to enable to play, encode and analyze video content simply, efficiently and with the highest quality imagina...
Kjell Carlsward
CEO
Motala, Sweden
cryptoguard.com
CryptoGuard is a global provider of Pay-TV content protection solutions such as Conditional Access (CAS) and Digital Rights Management (DRM) for any platform DVB, IPTV and OTT. CryptoGuard’s CAS platform is flexible, scalable, cost-effective and supports a ‘pay-as-you-grow’ business model enabling content security on any-size of network.
Vineet Jain
CEO
Mountain View, CA
egnyte.com
Egnyte’s all-in-one platform makes it simple and easy for IT to manage and control a full spectrum of content risks – from accidental data deletion, to data exfiltration, to privacy compliance and much more – all while giving business users the tools they need to work faster and smarter, from any cloud, any device, anywhere.
Ray Downes
CEO
Austin,TX
filecloud.com
FileCloud is a hyper-secure content collaboration platform (CCP) that provides industry leading compliance, data governance, data leak protection, data retention and digital rights management capabilities. Workflow automation and granular control of content sharing across most enterprise platforms is fully integrated into the complete CCP stack.
Derek Chang
CEO
Birmingham, UK
friendmts.com
Friend MTS is a company dedicated to innovation in content and platform security. Since its inception Friend MTS has developed a comprehensive suite of security services, powered by a unique set of proprietary technologies, to deliver the right solution in any situation.
Mathieu Desoubeaux
CEO
Bretagne, France
imatag.com
Imatag’s invisible watermark takes the security of visual content to the next level. With IMATAG, visual content is marked invisibly with a unique identifier. The invisible watermark works by modifying slightly the values of the image’s pixels according to a unique key and a perceptual mask to exploit the properties of the human visual system (areas of the image where the watermark modifications a...
Georg Ell
CEO
England, UK
smoothwall.com
Smoothwall develop intelligent web filtering, monitoring and security solutions designed to protect users worldwide. The company's products ensure safety and productivity — without forcing to compromise on flexibility. The company protect millions of users in thousands of networks worldwide.
Asaf Ashkenazi
CEO
San Diego, CA
verimatrix.com
Verimatrix helps power the modern connected world with security made for people. We protect digital content, applications, and devices with intuitive, people-centered, and frictionless security. Leading brands turn to Verimatrix to secure everything from premium movies and live-streaming sports to sensitive financial and healthcare data, to mission-critical mobile applications.
Susan Daly
President & CEO
Vancouver, Canada
vitrium.com
Vitrium Systems is the premier provider of content protection and digital rights management (DRM) software. At Vitrium, we understand your need for protecting your content. It is important to you, so it is important to us. We take pride in knowing we can provide you with the right content protection and digital rights management (DRM) solutions to allow your company to thrive with its content.