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Zero trust networking

Zero trust networking

- [Instructor] Zero trust network architecture is a relatively new network security philosophy. Now, I think that zero trust is a poorly chosen term and it would probably be better phrased as zero trust in the network. This approach doesn't mean that nobody is trusted, but rather that the organization's security philosophy is to trust individuals rather than networks. This is a major shift away from the way that cybersecurity and networking teams designed security controls in the past. Until recently, these groups implemented firewalls and other perimeter protection technologies that were designed to keep the internet separate from the internal network and to group internal users onto different network segments. Zero trust approaches to cybersecurity don't rely upon network location to determine authorized activity. Instead, they use strong authentication technology to confirm the identity of individual users and then…

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