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ENDPOINT-SECURITY5 MIN READ

Walk a contractor laptop access decision

Apply zero trust principles to a contractor endpoint access request.

01 Resource 02 Posture 03 Path Third-party access A trusted contractor has an urgent delivery deadline, but the access request comes from a laptop outside company management. The risk sits at the intersection of identity, endpoint posture, and resource sensitivity. Zero trust access decision Subject + device + context + resource Zero trust does not ask whether someone is generally trusted. It asks whether this access should happen now through this endpoint. Known person Grant broad access because the contractor is familiar. The contractor can work without moving secrets onto an unmanaged endpoint. Trust the verified transaction, not the network…

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