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![]() | Communicating the Business Value of Zero Trust Release Date: 12/18/2023 Zero Trust is a major industry trend that is being adopted and promoted by security teams around the globe, and for good reason - it delivers improved sec... Request to download |
![]() | Release Date: 07/18/2023 Zero Trust is a strategic mindset that is highly useful for organizations to adopt as part of their digital transformations and other efforts to increase ... Request to download |
![]() | Zero Trust Principles and Guidance for Identity and Access Management (IAM) Release Date: 07/13/2023 Identity and the ability to consume information about that identity as well as other Zero Trust (ZT) signals (additional attributes about an identity), is... Request to download |
![]() | Medical Devices in A Zero Trust Architecture Release Date: 05/08/2023 Today’s medical devices often connect to the cloud, which increases the risk by expanding the attack surface. This presents the Healthcare Delivery Organi... Request to download |
![]() | Zero Trust as a Security Philosophy Release Date: 11/14/2022 When implemented correctly, a Zero Trust architecture/strategy/approach to Information Technology, and the architecture that supports it, has the potentia... Request to download |
![]() | CISO Perspectives and Progress in Deploying Zero Trust Release Date: 06/03/2022 Some of the areas covered in this survey include where Zero Trust falls as a priority in the organization, the percentage of those who have completed rela... Request to download |
![]() | Integrating SDP and DNS: Enhanced Zero Trust Policy Enforcement Release Date: 04/12/2022 The purpose of this research article is to explain how DNS and the enterprise-managed DDI system can be combined with a Software-Defined Perimeter to deli... Request to download |
![]() | Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP) Specification v2.0 Release Date: 03/10/2022 The Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP) architecture is an effective way to implement the principles of Zero Trust. SDP aims to give enterprise security arch... Request to download |
![]() | Toward a Zero Trust Architecture Release Date: 10/27/2021 Enterprise stakeholders must consider the challenges of increased real-time system complexity, the need for new cybersecurity policy and strong cultural s... Request to download |
![]() | Zero Trust Architecture Expert Group Charter Release Date: 04/08/2021 The CSA Zero Trust Architecture Expert Group will review and advise on the scope, curriculum, objectives, structure, go-to-market (GTM) strategy and value pr... Request to download |
![]() | Software-Defined Perimeter Zero Trust Charter Release Date: 12/29/2020 The proposed charter outlines the scope, responsibilities, etc. to align and guide the Software-Defined Perimeter Zero Trust working group through the year 2... Request to download |
![]() | SDP: The Most Advanced Zero Trust Architecture Release Date: 05/27/2020 Today’s “Zero Trust” implementations are like putting up a wall with multiple doors and allowing people to come and pick a lock on the door. We are then just... Request to download |
![]() | Software-Defined Perimeter as a DDoS Prevention Mechanism Release Date: 10/27/2019 The primary goal of this document is to increase the awareness and understanding of SDP as a tool to prevent DDoS attacks by demonstrating its efficiency and... Request to download |
![]() | Software Defined Perimeter (SDP): Awareness and Adoption Infographic Release Date: 07/01/2019 A majority of organizations recognize the need to change their approach to user access control. SDP is seeing early market adoption and awareness, with under... Request to download |
![]() | Release Date: 05/07/2019 Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) Architecture Guide is designed to leverage proven, standards-based components to stop network attacks against application in... Request to download |
![]() | Software Defined Perimeter Glossary Release Date: 06/12/2018 The Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) Glossary is a reference document that brings together SDP related terms and definitions from various professional resour... Request to download |
![]() | Release Date: 02/13/2017 Obtain a clear sense of the security challenges facing enterprise users of IaaS, understand the problems that arise from combining native IaaS access control... Request to download |
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![]() | Release Date: 04/30/2014 This document outlines a Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) initiated protocol for the Software Defined Perimeter specification, and requests discussion and sugge... Request to download |
![]() | Release Date: 04/17/2014 The CSA SDP Hackathon challenged hackers to attack a server defended by a software defined perimeter. Of the billions of packets fired at the server, not one... Request to download |