Zero Trust Architecture Core Principles
Channel: The Open Group
Date: 28/07/2020

Mark Simos is Lead Architect for the Microsoft Cybersecurity Solutions Group where he is part of a group of cybersecurity experts, former CISOs, and former regulators who provide advice and guidance on cybersecurity strategy and technology.

Mark and his colleagues help organizations meet their cybersecurity and digital transformation goals by leveraging a deep pool of personal experience, lessons learned from cybersecurity incident investigations, and from Microsoft’s experience protecting and operating our hyper-scale cloud services.

The digitized world is interconnected and dynamic. Modern Work Use Cases:
- Normalization of remote work
- Rapidly evolving partnerships and competitors
- Rapidly changing communication patterns
- Evolving national interests and regulations

Security Modernization Imperatives:
- Automated Policy Enforcement - to address changing processes and models in an agile manner at minimum cost.
- Adaptive identity management - to respond to rapidly changing roles, responsibilities and relationships.
- Data centric and asset-centric approaches - to better focus security resources by limiting the scope of what to protect. Better monitor assets and respond to threats.

(3:20) - Zero Trust Components. Enable flexibile business workflows for digitized world.
(4:27) - Zero Trust Core Principles:
- Organizational Value & Risk (5:15)
- Governance (9:06)
- Technology & Security Controls (13:28)

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