Zero Trust Architecture

Appendix A

Applied Use Case for Zero Trust Principles

Business Problem

Smart Building Central Inc. (SBC) was embarking on a state-of-the-art building, slated to be its new headquarters and be “A place that people would want to work.” The new headquarters, deemed Smart Building Central, was slated to be a smart building with the goal of making working from the office as close to working from home as possible. Every system in the building, with few exceptions, would be connected to the network, with the backbone of the building being based on Cisco switching and wireless technology. With those endeavors, SBC Inc. also wanted to avoid being the next cybersecurity incident headline by ensuring that devices would only communicate in a manner that ...