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The Zero Trust Dictionary.
Co-written with John Kindervag, the creator of Zero Trust. The essential vocabulary in one short guide.
Co-author
John Kindervag
Format
Free PDF
Read time
~5 minutes
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What's inside
Four sections. Everything you need to speak Zero Trust.
Core concepts
What Zero Trust actually means, and the non-negotiables that separate it from “we added MFA.”
The 5-step model
Kindervag’s implementation model, in order: protect surface, transaction flows, architecture, policy, monitoring.
Vocabulary & terms
The terminology defined precisely, so your team and your vendors mean the same thing when they say “Zero Trust.”
Maturity markers
How to gauge where you actually stand today, battle-tested by ON2IT across a decade running Zero Trust for hospitals, utilities and critical infrastructure.
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