Chapter 1 Use Case: Juice Factory
What do you mean, zero trust? To be a successful organisation, we need trust. Yes, but not beyond what is required for them to do their job.
Throughout this book, we will explore the ideas of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) using a fictional company that allows us to look at the different concepts of zero trust in a practical and fun way. The corporation we will use is called Juice Factory, which represents a business that comprises both information technology (IT) used for communication and collaboration between employees and customers. And then there is also the operational technology (OT) that controls the production system making the Juice. At the last seminar for board members, they heard about a concept called Zero Trust, which can be used to make any organisation secure. Combined with the increasing risk of a cyber incident. The board of directors has hired you as their first Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). As the CISO, it’s your job to successfully adopt the strategies of ZTA to the organisation’s IT and OT environment. Making them more resilient against cyber threats and reducing the probability of a significant cyber affecting the business.
1.1 Company Profile
The first thing any CISO or security professional should do is to understand the organisation. It’s impossible to defend something you do not understand, like ...
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