Effective Security Using Zero Trust Architecture

By Jagadish Paranthaman, CISSP, Global Cybersecurity Solutions Architect at Avanade Zero Trust is a cybersecurity model centered around an end-to-end approach for resource and data protection with a principle not to trust completely but conduct continual verification. Zero Trust assumes the non-existence of a perimeter. It is not a product but a collection of architectural premises and security patterns encompassing identity, endpoints, networks and hosting infrastructure, applications, and data. Zero Trust Architecture is achieved through solutions that sit between requesting subject (identity) and a fulfilling resource (service or application). Solutions can be a combination of agent-based, cloud-based or enterprise deployment…