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Internet Packets have No Verifiable Identity

According to a recent IDSA report, 97% of IT security experts agree that identity is a foundational component of a Zero Trust security model. Until now, embedded packet identity and usage credentials have been universally ignored in the identity/security equation.

The overall threat and malware problem persists primarily because an IP address is the only identity a packet has. However, spoofed and uncontrolled IP addresses are often a common delivery mechanism for the more than 90% of packet traffic that is unwanted or dangerous.

Having no credentials and with no means of verifying the true packet source, the good packets are indistinguishable from the bad, and more than nine out of ten packets are unwanted or dangerous.

The critical innovation needed to solve this problem, and eliminate the majority of rogue packet traffic, is to arm the packet with true verifiable identity and usage provenance credentials – centrally validating packets and controlling packet usage across the local network and beyond to the cloud.

By giving packets verifiable identity, precisely controlling packet usage and significantly collapsing the threat surface, a new and much more powerful security paradigm emerges.