Wednesday, April 8, 2020

The Zero Trust Authorization Core

This is part 2 of a 3 blog series
The Foundation of a Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) talked about the guiding principles, or tenets of Zero Trust.  One of the tenets mentions how all network flows are to be authenticated before being processed and access is determined by dynamic policy.   A network that is intended to never trust, and to always verify all connections requires technology that can determine confidence and authorize connections and provide that future transactions remain valid.  The heart of any ZTA is an authorization core involving equipment within the control plane of the network that determines this confidence and continually evaluates confidence for every request.  Given that this authorization core is part of a control plane, it needs to be logically separated from the portion of the network used for application data traffic (the data plane).
  
Based on the designed ZTA…

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April 08, 2020 at 09:09PM

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