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Describe zero-trust and defense in depth

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Describe zero-trust and defense in depth

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- [Instructor] We've now covered all the concepts you need to know in order to understand our next topic. And that's the concept of Zero Trust. Zero Trust is a security methodology that assumes that every access or behavior in a system is a security breach. Zero Trust applies to network endpoints, to data, to apps, to the infrastructure, the computers, network components, and to the network itself. When using Zero Trust you use multifactor authentication to authenticate users and then you use conditional access to apply policies to secure the environment. Now, that's a key point here, because in order for Zero Trust to work, applications need to be designed for the lowest level of access necessary. In other words, you only give users the level of access to data, apps, networks, and infrastructure that they must have and no more. Now, there's another security philosophy that goes hand in hand with Zero Trust and…

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