Zero Trust
What is Zero Trust?
Zero trust is a security model that assumes no user, device, workload, or network location should be trusted automatically and requires continuous verification and tightly scoped access decisions.
Examples
- A company requires MFA, device compliance checks, and conditional access before allowing a user to open a cloud application.
- An internal application verifies user identity and policy every time a session is established rather than trusting that office-network location alone is safe.
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Traditional security design often treated the inside of the network as more trustworthy than the outside. Once a user or device was on the internal side, many systems assumed that the connection was relatively safe. That assumption has become much harder to defend in environments with cloud services, remote work, mobile devices, contractors, and attackers who actively seek internal footholds.
Zero trust changes the question. Instead of asking whether something is inside or outside, it asks whether this specific request should be trusted right now. That shift makes location much less important and identity, device state, workload context, and policy much more important.
Summary 📝
Zero trust is a security model that removes automatic trust based on network location and replaces it with contextual verification and narrowly scoped access. It relies heavily on strong identity, device evaluation, segmentation, and policy-driven access decisions. Its main benefit is reducing the damage that follows when one user, one device, or one path is compromised.
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