Forrester Five Steps To A Zero Trust Network Oct 2018

LICENSED FOR INDIVIDUAL USE ONLY
Five Steps To A Zero Trust Network

Road Map: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook
by Stephanie Balaouras, Chase Cunningham, and Peter Cerrato

October 1, 2018
Why Read This Report Key Takeaways

A Zero Trust (ZT) architecture abolishes the idea Zero Trust Is The Blueprint For Your Security
of a trusted network inside a defined corporate Architecture
perimeter. ZT mandates that enterprises create A secure structure needs a solid foundation.
microperimeters of control around their sensitive When building their security architecture, S&R
data assets to gain visibility into how they use pros must start with their fundamental needs and
data across their ecosystem to win, serve, and move outward. Use Forrester’s Zero Trust Model
retain customers. This report gives security and as the foundation for this security architecture.
risk (S&R) leaders best practices and a five-step
Identify Your Data And Map Its Flow
road map to realize the benefits of a Zero Trust
Zero Trust starts with the data. The first steps to
strategy more quickly.
building a ZT security architecture are identifying
your sensitive data and mapping its flow.
Learning the who, what, when, where, why, and
how of your firm’s data is imperative to create a
more robust and nimble security architecture.
Create And Monitor Your Zero Trust

Ecosystem
Base the design of your Zero Trust extended
network on the way your transactions flow
through your business ecosystem and how
employees, customers, and applications access
data. Use this information to isolate and protect
your extended network, enforce access control
and inspection policies, and continuously monitor
your ZT ecosystem for signs of a breach or other
malicious activity.
This PDF is only licensed for individual use when downloaded from forrester.com or reprints.forrester.com. All other distribution prohibited.
FORRESTER.COM
FOR SECURITY & RISK PROFESSIONALS

by Stephanie Balaouras, Chase Cunningham, and Peter Cerrato

with Laura Koetzle, Madeline Cyr, Bill Barringham, and Peggy Dostie
October 1, 2018
Table Of Contents Related Research Documents

2 Zero Trust Is The Blueprint For Your Security The Eight Business And Security Benefits Of
Architecture Zero Trust
4 Five Steps To Zero Trust Information The Future Of Data Security And Privacy: Growth
Security And Competitive Differentiation
Step 1: Identify Your Sensitive Data Future-Proof Your Digital Business With Zero
Trust Security
Step 2: Map The Flows Of Your Sensitive Data
The Zero Trust eXtended (ZTX) Ecosystem: People
Step 3: Architect Your Zero Trust
Microperimeters
Step 4: Continuously Monitor Your Zero Trust

Ecosystem With Security Analytics
Share reports with colleagues.
Step 5: Embrace Security Automation And Enhance your membership with
Orchestration Research Share.
Recommendations
10 Use Zero Trust To Unite Technology And
Business Stakeholders
Forrester Research, Inc., 60 Acorn Park Drive, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA

+1 617-613-6000 | Fax: +1 617-613-5000 | forrester.com
© 2018 Forrester Research, Inc. Opinions reflect judgment at the time and are subject to change. Forrester®,
Technographics®, Forrester Wave, TechRadar, and Total Economic Impact are trademarks of Forrester Research,
Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. Unauthorized copying or distributing
is a violation of copyright law. [email protected] or +1 866-367-7378
FOR SECURITY & RISK PROFESSIONALS October 1, 2018
Zero Trust Is The Blueprint For Your Security Architecture

Too many security teams fail to address the basic vulnerabilities that cyberadversaries target in their
attacks. Foundational needs include a security strategy, dedication to recruiting and retaining staff, a
focus on fundamental security, and an integrated security portfolio that enables orchestration.1 S&R
leaders should:
›› Ensure you have a documented security strategy. Your security strategy must document the
scope of the security organization’s functional and technical responsibilities, structure, and staffing;
describe the overall technical security architecture; and lay out the road map for capital and
operating investments.2
›› Use Forrester’s Zero Trust Model as the security architecture blueprint . . . ZT is an architectural
model for building secure microperimeters, using obfuscation to increase data security, curbing
excessive user privileges to limit risk, and employing automation and analytics to improve security
detection and response. It requires S&R pros to discard the idea of a trusted internal network and
an untrusted external network. It demands that security teams verify and secure all resources
regardless of location; limit and strictly enforce access control for all users, devices, channels, and
hosting models; and log and inspect all internal and external traffic (see Figure 1).3
›› . . . and apply it to the entire business ecosystem. Apply ZT throughout the extended business
ecosystem, including all hosting models, locations, users, and devices. If you don’t address
mobile device and app proliferation, cloud service adoption, social media use, and third-party
dependencies, you have no hope of detecting or responding to a targeted attack. An architectural
approach will help you focus on the security of your data, workforce, and workloads (whether they
run on-premises or in the public cloud).4
© 2018 Forrester Research, Inc. Unauthorized copying or distributing is a violation of copyright law. 2
[email protected] or +1 866-367-7378
FIGURE 1 Forrester’s Zero Trust Approach To Information Security
App hosting
and sourcing
SaaS apps
Apps in public clouds
Partner apps
All
Apps in private clouds networks
(untrusted)
On-premises enterprise apps
Enterprise computers Employees

Enterprise-issued devices Contractors
Public computers Partners
IoT devices Customers
App User
access channels populations
Data-centric security is supported by integrated security functions and consolidated

controls that form a security ecosystem.
Data control — the ability to apply universal security policies to protect sensitive data regardless of
location, device type, hosting model, or user population. This requires the ability to:
• Inventory and classify data across networks, devices, and apps.
• Encrypt data in flight to and at rest in any application, device, or network regardless of location.
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
• Enforce access control across user populations, apps, and devices.

• Apply and enforce declarative policy dynamically via APIs.
Intelligence — combining real-time analysis and visibility with contextual information to identify
threats, address vulnerabilities, and uncover incidents in progress. This requires:
• Real-time analysis and visibility across networks, devices, apps, users, and data.
• Contextual information about the user, transaction risk, and overall security state, such as traffic
flows, device state, user identity and biometrics, behavior, app state, app classification,
data classification, location, and time.
Five Steps To Zero Trust Information Security

While Zero Trust begins by redesigning network security, it’s fundamentally a data-centric model.
Today, cyberadversaries steal data to sell in underground markets and intellectual property to sell to
unscrupulous competitors.5 As digital businesses amass data on customers, markets, and their own
operations to personalize marketing, develop new products and services, and make better decisions,
data becomes both an opportunity and a threat. As society better understands the threat to individual
privacy, lawmakers will enact regulations restricting data use.6 As business becomes more data-
centric, so must security strategy, architecture, and networks. That’s why each of our five steps to Zero
Trust focuses on data in some way.
Step 1: Identify Your Sensitive Data
You can’t protect what you can’t see. If you don’t know where your firm stores data; how employees,
partners, and customers use it; who specifically uses it; and how sensitive it is; you’re depending on
blind luck to protect you from a data breach. Before investing in security controls, identify the data you
need to protect.7 Zero Trust starts at the data to ensure that S&R pros’ technology investments have a
specific purpose and are not guided by expense-in-depth principles. S&R leaders must:
›› Identify and classify sensitive data. By defining your data, you can identify sensitive data sources to
protect. Forrester’s data security and control framework can help you get a handle on sensitive data
and create a strategy for becoming more data-centric.8 Next, simplify your data classification. Many
data classification policies are based on complex analog models of classifying documents that are
impossible to implement. Prevent this by using Forrester’s simplified data classification model, which
sorts data into three categories: public, internal, and confidential. Classifying data according to the
way you will protect it can make your data classification project a reality (see Figure 2).9
›› Segment the network based on data sensitivity. When designing ZT networks, it’s important to
do it in consumable chunks. Zero Trust is an object-oriented network design. The goal is to create
small segments of network elements — microperimeters — that you can bind together to create
a larger ZT network. When creating your first ZT microperimeter, start with a well-understood
data type or system such as the HR system, which contains highly sensitive data in the form of
employees’ personally identifiable information.10 If you’re a hospital or medical provider, start with
your clinical systems; a pharmaceutical company, your drug discovery systems.
FIGURE 2 Identify And Classify Your Sensitive Data
Data users leverage this tagging and provide feedback on tags.
Data owner and data auditor can review and retag.
• Data is subject to local/national laws.

Data
creator • Data is subject to compliance regulations.
determines • Data loss will violate a business
toxicity. agreement.
3P + IP = TD
Data is considered intellectual Valuable

property. What is the value of
this data to a competitor? Not very
Yes useful (rare)
Data is
created. Data loss will Will the impact
Yes
Is it toxic? No do harm to violate privacy
employees or result in
and/or customers. direct costs? No
Data loss will not
do harm to
employees or
customers.
Step 2: Map The Flows Of Your Sensitive Data
You need to understand how data flows across your extended network and between resources and
people: employees, partners, and customers (see Figure 3). To map transaction flows, engage multiple
stakeholders: application architects to see how the application interacts with users; network architects
to understand network interconnections; enterprise architects to pull everything together; and business
reps to identify the business value of the application. Designing an HR ZT network, for example, would
use a typical three-tiered application architecture: The web server tier provides the application interface
to users; the app server tier translates web server requests into business logic; and the database
server tier holds the sensitive data necessary for the application to function. As you begin mapping, the
cross-functional ZT design team must:
›› Locate and map all dependent network and system objects. In an HR system, for example, this
means locating all of the network and system objects that a successful application needs. It’s not
uncommon to discover legacy hardware or software in the flow. Mapping the application flow is useful
for disaster recovery planning and can reveal sanctioned and unsanctioned third-party and cloud-service
dependencies. In an HR system, this might include third-party identity verification services and employee
due diligence services. The data flow mapping exercise can’t stop at the corporate perimeter: Sensitive
data flowing to a third party requires security controls including encryption in flight and at rest.11
›› Design a more optimal flow if necessary. Application flow mapping will show you how the
application works today. The design team must take that version of the transaction flow and design
an optimized version that disregards the current network state. Remember, you’re building a new
micronetwork for this application that you will join with other elements to make a functioning
application or technology service.12
›› Leverage existing data and network flow diagrams. The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data
Security Standard requires firms to create diagrams to help understand cardholder data flows and
ensure that network segmentation isolates the cardholder data environment.13 You can use PCI
cardholder data flow diagrams to help map your own sensitive data transaction flows. Many firms
also undertake data flow mapping exercises as part of their efforts to comply with the EU’s General
Data Protection Regulation, which took effect in May 2018. Data protection authorities across the
EU have geared up to enforce these new data privacy protections for EU residents — including
fines of up to 4% of a violator’s global revenues.14
FIGURE 3 Example Data Flow Mapping
Account
management
Application
Data sharing
partner
Data
Sales DB
Client Mobile
app
Client information DB
Step 3: Architect Your Zero Trust Microperimeters
Security architects will base the actual design of a Zero Trust network on how the transactions flow
across the extended business ecosystem and how people and applications access sensitive data.
Individuals can only use, abuse, or misuse data — so define and optimize a transaction path that
characterizes proper data use and flags or denies transactions when someone is potentially abusing or
misusing it. To do this:
›› Define microperimeters around sensitive data. Once you determine the optimal flow, identify
where to place the microperimeters. As the primary goal is to protect sensitive data, S&R pros
usually create microperimeters around sensitive data repositories and systems of record (see Figure
4). The ability to create virtual networks via software-defined networking is useful in ZT design, but
it’s important to enforce the segmentation with a security control. Virtual networks are designed
to optimize network performance; they can’t by themselves prevent malware propagation, lateral
movement, or unauthorized access to sensitive data.
›› Enforce microperimeters with physical or virtual security controls. There are multiple ways to
enforce microperimeters. In some instances, you’ll want to use a physical or virtual NGFW from
a vendor like Check Point, Cisco, Fortinet, or Palo Alto Networks. If you’ve adopted a network
virtualization platform because you have a highly virtualized compute environment, opt for a virtual
NGFW to insert into the virtualization layer of your network. You don’t always need a NGFW to
enforce network segmentation; there are software-based approaches to microsegmentation from
vendors such as Edgewise Networks, Illumio, Safe-T, ShieldX, and even established vendors such
as Akamai and VMware.15
›› Limit and strictly enforce access to microperimeters. The Zero Trust approach requires you to
minimize and strictly control this access. To define rules, the ZT design team must have a detailed
understanding of user entitlements — fine-grained authorizations that dictate what kind of access
a user has to a resource after authentication. Security teams also need a commercial solution for
identity management and governance to frequently review and recertify these entitlements.16
›› Automate the rule and policy base. Zero Trust requires firms to define and enforce data security
and access policies across hosting models, locations, users, and devices, requiring you to carefully
define rules and policies within key security controls such as NGFWs, email and cloud security
gateways, and DLP.17 These controls combine to enforce microperimeters that transcend hosting
models and locations. While today you may have to go to each solution’s management console
to do this, vendors are working on product integrations that automatically update policy and
centralized consoles that define and update policies across products. Cisco’s Defense Orchestrator
unifies policies across its NGFWs, web security appliances, and solutions that are part of Cisco
Umbrella. Most security portfolio vendors are taking a similar approach.
›› Use auditing and change control tools. If you’re using heterogeneous firewalls, one best practice
is to use a firewall auditing and change control solution such as AlgoSec, FireMon, Red Seal,
Skybox Security, or Tufin to continuously audit and optimize your NGFW rule base. Many security
teams have a change control mechanism that provides a process for adding firewall rules but
doesn’t delete expired rules. Don’t forget to look for unused rules in your policy; malicious actors
could exploit these.
FIGURE 4 An Example Database Microperimeter
Active Security
directory analytics
DB microperimeter
Step 4: Continuously Monitor Your Zero Trust Ecosystem With Security Analytics
Another core tenet of Zero Trust is to log and inspect all internal and external traffic for malicious
activity and areas of improvement. S&R pros can use a variety of solutions to monitor the entire
ecosystem for signs of malicious activity. Many security information management (SIM) solutions have
evolved into robust security analytics (SA) solutions that can ingest and correlate not only logs but also
data from disparate sources such as networks, applications, endpoints, and DLP and IAM solutions.18
Instead of relying solely on rules, SA uses data science techniques to detect unknown threats and
complex attacks; the deeper context, built-in workflows, and embedded remediation capabilities
dramatically improve investigations and response.19 To better monitor ZT environments:
›› Evaluate where you may already have SA. Are you making the most of tools you already own? SIM
vendors now include features like network analysis and visibility and security user behavior analytics
(SUBA) — so ask your SIM vendor what functionality is available through your current solution. If you
can avoid adding yet another product or interface, your security operations team will thank you.20
›› Determine the best deployment model for your business. If much of your business has already
moved to the cloud, a cloud deployment from a vendor like AlienVault (recently acquired by AT&T),
IBM, Securonix, or Splunk may be a better fit for you, especially if your security team is already
overtaxed.21 On-premises deployments can be a better fit in sensitive environments or where data
volumes are a concern. Hybrid deployments, where some monitoring is performed in the cloud and
some with on-premises equipment, are also popular.
›› Find a vendor that will move you along the automation path. SA vendors are building
automation into their solutions and integrating with tools like IAM, NGFWs, intrusion prevention,
and endpoint detection and response to give security operations center (SOC) analysts the ability
to initiate remediation from the SA console. The next step is to automate remediation to take
immediate action based on confidence level and business impact.22 Challenge your vendor to
demonstrate how it’s automating SOC processes.
Step 5: Embrace Security Automation And Orchestration
Technology is increasingly automated, but security teams at many firms still use manual processes,
relying on spreadsheets and email for much of their investigative work and collaboration. Manual
security operations slow breach detection and response, leaving data and systems vulnerable to
attacks or giving attackers more time to exfiltrate data and cause lasting damage to the environment.
To embrace automation:
›› Work with business leaders to define policies for automation. In the past, security teams were
hesitant to automate anything for fear of blocking a legitimate transaction or affecting the customer
or employee experience. Today, the potential business impact of a security breach or incident is
so great that both business leaders and S&R teams are embracing automation — which requires
defining the firm’s tolerance for risk. If a monitoring solution like SA has a high degree of confidence
that an employee’s behavior is malicious, a predefined policy or SOC analyst automatically triggers
a reset of that user’s password and the isolation of his devices from the network. The confidence
threshold could be lower for privileged users with the potential to inflict significant damage.
›› Assess and document your SOC processes. Many security teams lack defined workflows and
SOC processes. Automating poor processes will only allow you to make bad decisions faster.
Before fully embracing security automation and orchestration (SAO), assess the maturity of your
processes, document them, and standardize them across the security team. You may be surprised
to learn how many steps your analysts go through to conduct an investigation or close a ticket.
›› Check with your SA vendor to see what automation options are available. SA vendors like
IBM and Splunk already have or are adding SAO to their solutions. Splunk recently acquired one of
the better-known dedicated SOA vendors, Phantom. Before investing in yet another security tool,
ask your existing vendor if it can support your needs. Depending on the capabilities and road map
of your current SA vendor, you may decide to go with a dedicated SAO solution like those from
Demisto, Siemplify, and SwimLane.23
›› Confirm that the SAO vendor supports your security infrastructure. A SAO tool will do you
no good if it doesn’t work with your current technology stack. Before deploying, ask for a proof of
concept to demonstrate that the solution works with your infrastructure.
Recommendations
Use Zero Trust To Unite Technology And Business Stakeholders

You can’t achieve Zero Trust in a vacuum. Because it’s cross-functional, ZT provides incentives for
different business and technology organizations to collaborate and helps to collapse the silos that
inhibit growth. A ZT environment is agile and can dynamically adjust to business initiatives such as
underpinning customer-facing mobile services, supporting geographic business expansion, adopting
cloud services, integrating suppliers, and opening up R&D facilities. To realize Zero Trust across the
organization, security leaders must:
›› Work with I&O leaders to define microperimeters and enable automation. At many firms,
the infrastructure and operations (I&O) team controls much of the technology budget; develops
strategy; manages cloud initiatives and core infrastructure for computing, network, and storage;
and is at the forefront of initiatives like DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, and the internet of things.24
Traditionally, I&O and security teams have operated as distinct silos, but now they must fuse their
talents and automation initiatives to deliver efficient risk management with unprecedented speed,
agility, and dependability.25
›› Engage business leaders in data inventory, classification, and mapping. Data is the currency
of digital businesses, and a data breach is a catastrophic event. Because ZT is data-centric, it can
play a key role not only in shoring up an enterprise’s reputation for security, privacy, and trust with
its customers, but also in aligning the objectives of the CMO, CIO, and CISO. By understanding
the critical data that drives a company’s business, Zero Trust efforts can help these execs prevent
a data breach that drives customers away and costs millions. It can also aid chief privacy and data
protection officers to ensure the firm not only meets but exceeds the spirit of consumer privacy
objectives in regulations like GDPR and the recently passed California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018.
›› Extend Zero Trust thinking to include their people. Use security awareness training as an
opportunity to increase the security IQ of your employees, engage them in identifying and
compartmentalizing sensitive data, and leverage them as a first line of defense to recognize when
sensitive data is flowing outside of appropriate channels. Once your people are engaged in these
processes, they will be more comfortable as you roll out SUBA to detect anomalous activity in your
network and act on it before it becomes a breach.26
Engage With An Analyst

Gain greater confidence in your decisions by working with Forrester thought leaders to apply
our research to your specific business and technology initiatives.
Analyst Inquiry Analyst Advisory Webinar
To help you put research Translate research into Join our online sessions
into practice, connect action by working with on the latest research
with an analyst to discuss an analyst on a specific affecting your business.
your questions in a engagement in the form Each call includes analyst
30-minute phone session of custom strategy Q&A and slides and is
— or opt for a response sessions, workshops, available on-demand.
via email. or speeches.
Learn more.
Learn more. Learn more.
Forrester’s research apps for iOS and Android.

Stay ahead of your competition no matter where you are.
Endnotes
Cyberthreats, complex technology environments, and the struggle to hire experienced staff are finally forcing S&R
1
pros to seek out security automation solutions. See the Forrester report “Breakout Vendors: Security Automation And
Orchestration (SAO).”
Forrester’s CISO Strategic Canvas guides security leaders in developing a strategy that aligns with business
2
objectives. Expand outside security if you want to anticipate where the business is going and how to help get it there.
See the Forrester report “Use Forrester’s CISO Strategic Canvas To Align Security With Business.”
There’s an old saying in information security: “We want our network to be like an M&M, with a hard crunchy outside
3
and a soft chewy center.” For today’s digital business, this perimeter-based security model is ineffective. See the
Forrester report “No More Chewy Centers: The Zero Trust Model Of Information Security.”
See the Forrester report “The Zero Trust eXtended (ZTX) Ecosystem: People.”
4
As the threat landscape continues to evolve, S&R leaders must adjust their risk management strategies to counter
5
the next frontier: intellectual property theft. Theft of IP, such as trade secrets, new product designs, financial
information, and source code, can lead to a permanent loss of competitive advantage. See the Forrester report “The
Cybercriminal’s Prize: Your Customer Data And Intellectual Property.”
6
To help S&R professionals navigate the complex landscape of privacy laws around the world, Forrester created the
Data Privacy Heat Map, which explains the data protection guidelines and practices for 54 countries. See the Forrester
report “Forrester’s 2017 Interactive Data Privacy Heat Map.”
7
Data identity is the missing link that S&R leaders must define to create actionable policy. See the Forrester report
“Develop Effective Security And Privacy Policies.”
8
Forrester’s Data Security And Control Framework breaks down the problem of controlling and securing data into three
areas: defining the data; dissecting and analyzing the data; and defending and protecting the data. See the Forrester
report “The Future Of Data Security And Privacy: Growth And Competitive Differentiation.”
9
S&R pros can’t expect to adequately protect customer, employee, and sensitive corporate data and IP if they don’t
know what data exists, where it resides, how valuable it is to the firm, and who can use it. See the Forrester report
“Rethinking Data Discovery And Classification Strategies.”
10
See the Forrester report “Build Security Into Your Network’s DNA: The Zero Trust Network Architecture” and see the
Forrester report “Jump-Start Zero Trust With Forrester’s Reference Architecture.”
11
Due to growing concerns regarding data theft, privacy, and government surveillance, security pros are increasingly
using all forms of encryption (cloud gateway, file, full disk, app-level, database-level, etc.) throughout their digital
businesses. See the Forrester report “TechRadar™: Data Security And Privacy, Q4 2017.”
12
See the Forrester report “Future-Proof Your Digital Business With Zero Trust Security.”
13
For more information, consult the PCI DSS v3.2 Requirement 1.1.3. Source: “Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data
Security Standard (DSS) and Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS),” PCI Security Standards
Council, April 2016 (https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/PCI_DSS_v3-2.pdf?agreement=true&ti
me=1510065355049).
14
“Infringements . . . shall . . . be subject to administrative fines up to 20,000,000 EUR, or in the case of an undertaking,
up to 4% of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher.” Source: “Art.
83 GDPR: General conditions for imposing administrative fines,” General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (https://
gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/).
See the Forrester report “The Five Milestones To GDPR Success.”

15
See the Forrester report “The Forrester Tech Tide™: Zero Trust Threat Prevention, Q3 2018.”
16
See the Forrester report “The Forrester Identity Management And Governance Maturity Model” and see the Forrester
report “The Forrester Wave™: Identity Management And Governance, Q2 2016.”
17
DLP: data loss prevention.
18
IAM: identity and access management.
19
See the Forrester report “Counteract Cyberattacks With Security Analytics.”
20
In our 36-criteria evaluation of security analytics providers, we identified the 11 most significant ones and researched,
analyzed, and scored them. See the Forrester report “The Forrester Wave™: Security Analytics Platforms, Q1 2017.”
21
SA solutions promise to provide an array of functionality to give security professionals better visibility, improved
detection, and enhanced workflows. See the Forrester report “Vendor Landscape: Security Analytics (SA).”
22
Security analytics is the decision-making layer for Forrester’s declarative security model. Using a response index
based on confidence level and impact, security systems can take automated actions to stop malicious behavior,
saving precious time in the event of an incident. See the Forrester report “Rules Of Engagement: A Call To Action To
Automate Breach Response.”
23
See the Forrester report “Now Tech: Security Automation And Orchestration (SAO), Q3 2018.”
See the Forrester report “Become A Unicorn With With Infrastructure-As-Code” and see the Forrester report “Pick The
24
Right IoT Network Strategy.”

25
See the Forrester report “Reduce Risk And Improve Security Through Infrastructure Automation.”
26
See the Forrester report “Maintain Your Security Edge.”
We work with business and technology leaders to develop
customer-obsessed strategies that drive growth.
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
›› Core research and tools
›› Data and analytics
›› Peer collaboration
›› Analyst engagement
›› Consulting
›› Events
Forrester’s research and insights are tailored to your role and

critical business initiatives.
ROLES WE SERVE
Marketing & Strategy Technology Management Technology Industry
Professionals Professionals Professionals
CMO CIO Analyst Relations
B2B Marketing Application Development
B2C Marketing & Delivery
Customer Experience Enterprise Architecture
Customer Insights Infrastructure & Operations
eBusiness & Channel ›› Security & Risk
Strategy Sourcing & Vendor
Management
CLIENT SUPPORT
For information on hard-copy or electronic reprints, please contact Client Support at
+1 866-367-7378, +1 617-613-5730, or [email protected]. We offer quantity
discounts and special pricing for academic and nonprofit institutions.
Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR) is one of the most influential research and advisory firms in the world. We work with
business and technology leaders to develop customer-obsessed strategies that drive growth. Through proprietary
research, data, custom consulting, exclusive executive peer groups, and events, the Forrester experience is about a
singular and powerful purpose: to challenge the thinking of our clients to help them lead change in their organizations.
For more information, visit forrester.com. 120510

Forrester Five Steps To A Zero Trust Network Oct 2018

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Forrester Five Steps To A Zero Trust Network Oct 2018

Uploaded by

Document Information

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

Forrester Five Steps To A Zero Trust Network Oct 2018

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

LICENSED FOR INDIVIDUAL USE ONLY

Five Steps To A Zero Trust Network

by Stephanie Balaouras, Chase Cunningham, and Peter Cerrato

Why Read This Report Key Takeaways

Create And Monitor Your Zero Trust

Five Steps To A Zero Trust Network

by Stephanie Balaouras, Chase Cunningham, and Peter Cerrato

Table Of Contents Related Research Documents

Step 4: Continuously Monitor Your Zero Trust

Forrester Research, Inc., 60 Acorn Park Drive, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA

Zero Trust Is The Blueprint For Your Security Architecture

FIGURE 1 Forrester’s Zero Trust Approach To Information Security

Apps in public clouds

Enterprise computers Employees

Data-centric security is supported by integrated security functions and consolidated

• Enforce access control across user populations, apps, and devices.

Five Steps To Zero Trust Information Security

Step 1: Identify Your Sensitive Data

FIGURE 2 Identify And Classify Your Sensitive Data

Data users leverage this tagging and provide feedback on tags.

Data owner and data auditor can review and retag.

• Data is subject to local/national laws.

Data is considered intellectual Valuable

Step 2: Map The Flows Of Your Sensitive Data

FIGURE 3 Example Data Flow Mapping

Step 3: Architect Your Zero Trust Microperimeters

FIGURE 4 An Example Database Microperimeter

Step 5: Embrace Security Automation And Orchestration

Use Zero Trust To Unite Technology And Business Stakeholders

Engage With An Analyst

Analyst Inquiry Analyst Advisory Webinar

Forrester’s research apps for iOS and Android.

See the Forrester report “The Five Milestones To GDPR Success.”

Right IoT Network Strategy.”

Forrester’s research and insights are tailored to your role and

You might also like