Re:Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture
by gz5 on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @04:50PM
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Agree, not a perfect term. You certainly make a good point and in fact the strongest zero trust approaches don't even let you on the network (even at layer 3) until after you are authorized.
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Re:Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture
by happyopossum on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @06:47PM
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Err, no - the strongest zero trust approaches never let you “on the network” - authorized or not.
They are designed to connect you to an application, you should never see the network.
yeah, agree, 'on the network' is a bad phrase. long form:
completely 'eliminate' the network by closing all inbound firewall ports (not even allowing dynamic hole punching), and then opening ephemeral, session-specific L3 outbound connects (from both sides* of the session) only for authorized sessions (strong auth - not IP-address based auth).
* requires intermediate 'gateways' which can bridge both sides to enable bidirectional data flow, initiated from either side