Zero Trust Architecture

Chapter 8

Developing a Successful Segmentation Plan

Chapter Key Points

• After an organization collects contextual identities, examines traffic traversal, and understands what technologies can be used in the current environment for segmentation, the organization must create a segmentation plan and deployment structure to continue to guide it down the segmentation path.

• When an organization is planning to deploy segmentation and pursue the Zero Trust journey, the first step in the journey should be to ask what the drivers are for pursuing Zero Trust in the first place. The only way to guarantee success is to have clear problem statements for why Zero Trust is important.

• The Zero Trust problem statement and the need to change the way the organization ...