Zero Trust in a Distributed World
Zero Trust in a Distributed World The rise of remote work, cloud apps, and microservices has dissolved the old network perimeter. In a distributed world, the only safe default is to assume compromise and verify every access request. Zero Trust is not a single tool. It’s a security model built on three ideas: never trust, always verify; least privilege access; and continuous evaluation. In practice, this means checks happen at every step: who is asking, from where, on what device, and under what context. It also means policies move from broad access to specific scopes, and software supply chains are watched as closely as people watch the door. ...