: The Five Steps to Approaching Zero Trust
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The Five Steps to Approaching Zero Trust

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The Five Steps to Approaching Zero Trust

Implement Zero Trust strategy with a five-step approach that takes you from identifying critical elements to protect to architecture to maintenance.
The five-step approach to a Zero Trust strategy creates a logical, clear path to protecting your environment, data, applications, infrastructure, services, and users. The way you apply the strategy depends on the assets that you’re protecting (location, risk if compromised, value to the business, access requirements, etc.) and your business requirements, but the outcomes you’re working toward are similar:
  • Segment the network effectively and efficiently to prevent lateral movement across your network if there is a security issue.
  • Protect business-critical data and infrastructure from unauthorized applications and users to reduce attack vectors.
  • Protect business-critical applications from unauthorized access and usage to reduce attack vectors.
  • Enforce consistent security policy seamlessly across your enterprise—networks, clouds, and endpoints—to simplify management and provide the same level of access and security to users across all use cases. The same security policy applies to users wherever they go in your network so that enforcement is consistent across the network.
The five-step approach works across your entire enterprise, whether you’re implementing a Zero Trust strategy in the cloud, on a private network, or on endpoints. The following sections describe each of the five steps and how to accomplish them.

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