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7/23/2026

Zero Trust for Business Applications
Short summary
A structured guide to applying zero trust principles to business applications, replacing network-location-based trust with explicit per-request authorization. Covers mapping resources, strengthening identity, giving workloads verifiable identities, and migrating access journeys incrementally with rollback support. Emphasizes governance around protected resources and treating configuration as ongoing product work.
- •Replace implicit network trust with explicit per-request authorization decisions
- •Give deployable workloads distinct identities and authenticate service-to-service calls
- •Migrate one high-value journey at a time with simulation, shadow mode, and rollback steps
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