Zero Trust Security: An Enterprise Guide

© Jason Garbis and Jerry W. Chapman 2021

J. Garbis, J. W. ChapmanZero Trust Securityhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6702-8_4

4. Zero Trust in Practice

Jason Garbis¹   and Jerry W. Chapman²

(1)

Boston, MA, USA

(2)

Atlanta, GA, USA

 

Now that we’ve introduced the principles of Zero Trust and examined several models, let’s look at some real-world examples of Zero Trust systems. Two of these—Google’s BeyondCorp and the PagerDuty Zero Trust system—have been publicly described, and are good examples of Zero Trust architectures and systems, implemented internally at two very different enterprises with very different approaches.

We can learn a lot from these case studies, even if we can’t deploy a Zero Trust architecture that matches either one of these. Because ...