Zero Trust Architecture

Chapter 7

Zero Trust Common Challenges

Chapter Key Points

• Organizations with a goal of segmentation will encounter many challenges throughout their data collection and focus on contextual identity and traffic traversal.

• A connection-focused mindset for legacy networks has created a slew of challenges that must be overcome in a Zero Trust Architecture. These challenges can be overcome with proper focus and discovery, while keeping in mind the goal that an organization’s Zero Trust journey is driven by.

• Identifying and understanding the identity of devices and using that identity to determine the expected behavior both internally and externally are key to securing devices throughout the network.

• Many other, seemingly unrelated processes contribute ...