Consistency via a simple model and durable capabilities

A modern organization is complex and composed of many different specialized roles— business strategy, technology deployment and operation, financial performance, regulatory requirements, and so on. To keep everyone working in the same direction, it’s critical to provide a simple model that everyone can quickly understand, including a set of durable capabilities we can count on to stay consistent over time.

Creating this consistency early accelerates Zero Trust adoption and the value it brings—increased business agility and resilience to cyberattacks. This consistency reduces internal friction between teams, which holds back both business agility and security integration.

Because a Zero Trust transformation affects all aspects of security, it’s worthwhile to take a fresh look at security and revisit the core basic outcomes of the discipline. Information security is very similar to other security...