C-suite and other executives at organizations adopting Zero Trust say complexity and compatibility issues with legacy systems and environments pose the greatest challenge to adoption (44.6%), according to a new Deloitte poll. Yet, Zero Trust adoption efforts at polled executives’ organizations will be driven in the year ahead by an expected increase in cyber threats (30.1%) and the need to better manage third-party risks (25.1%).

1. Is Zero Trust the way?
Deloitte poll results

2. Is Zero Trust the way?
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Methodology
350+
C-suite and other executives were polled
online during a Deloitte webcast titled “Is
Zero Trust the way?” on January 31, 2023.
Answer rates differed by question.
In some instances, immaterial amounts (e.g., +/-
0.1%) have been added to or removed from the
“Don’t know/not applicable” answer responses to
bring results to 100% total for each question.

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Votes received 458
During the next 12 months, which is most likely to drive your organization's adoption of Zero Trust?
Don’t know / not applicable = 7.7%
Increase in velocity, sophistication, and impact of cyber
threats (e.g., ransomware)
Managing third-party access risks
Managing workforce-related risks (e.g., remote
employees, insider threats)
Managing risks due to increased cloud adoption
Managing elevated cyber risks due to geopolitical
conflict
30.1%
25.1%
17.2%
15.1%
4.8%

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Votes received 460
Which has posed the greatest challenge to your organization's implementation of Zero Trust
approaches?
Don’t know / not applicable = 13.1%
Complexity and compatibility
issues with legacy systems
and environments
Lack of a clear
strategy and
roadmap
Lack of a baseline of the
environment (assets, users
and applications)
Lack of coordinated
implementation across
disparate teams
44.6%
17.6%
13.0% 11.7%

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Votes received 353
During the next 12 months, which area is your organization most likely to prioritize for advancement
within its Zero Trust adoption efforts?
Don’t know / not applicable = 15.9%
Data security enhancements (e.g., data discovery, data
protection, encryption)
Identity and Access Management enhancements (e.g.,
centralize/federate identity stores, role-based access control,
attribute-based access control, multi-factor authentication)
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) implementation
Network segmentation
Endpoint controls improvements (e.g., endpoint detection
& response, mobile device management, bring your own
device compensating controls, etc.)
26.1%
21.5%
13.9%
13.3%
9.3%

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