Quick Read

DISA’s 163-page document on the Zero Trust Reference Architecture presents seven pillars of a zero trust environment. These include the user, device, network, applications, data, visibility, and orchestration. Each of these pillars deserves a deep analysis, but in this short post we argue why the first two — user and device — are most critical.

Zero Knowledge and Zero Trust: they’re basically the same, right? Not quite. While these two terms might be similar in name, they are in fact two completely different ideas. Zero Knowledge can be used to help complete the notion of Zero Trust, but it cannot work in the opposite direction. Zero Knowledge is a mathematical distinction, whereas Zero Trust is a philosophical one.