Chapter 1 History of and Introduction to Zero Trust

DOI: 10.1201/9781003225096-3

Zero trust allows organizations to embrace the flexibility that their teams demand, while increasing the security of their systems. The question for security professionals isn’t whether to embrace zero trust, the question is where are we along the journey?

Omkhar Arasaratnam, Engineering Director, Google

The adjective Zero Trust might be misleading at least to some of you. What does it mean? Does it mean “I don’t trust you” or “there is no trust”? Before we explain what Zero Trust is, let us understand where it originated from history and how it become very popular in today’s world.

The proverb rhymes in Russian – Doveryai, no proveryai – means that ...

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