Protect the resource, not the hallway around it
Explain zero trust in practical SaaS terms and apply it to resource-level access decisions.
The reframe: “inside the network” is a weak story; “verified for this action, right now” is a strong one. Zero trust changes the unit of protection NIST describes zero trust as moving defenses from static perimeters to users, assets, and resources. In SaaS, that means access controls should be designed around the sensitive thing being touched: a production tenant, a signing key, a billing export, an admin control plane, or a support workflow. The network can still be one signal, but it should not be the decisive one. Request-time signals beat background assumptions The reason zero trust works is that…
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