During an internal security review, your organization decides to replace its legacy perimeter-based defenses with a Zero Trust architecture. Which statement most accurately summarizes the guiding principle that distinguishes the Zero Trust Model from traditional approaches?
Granting least-privilege access to all users
Enforcing multi-factor authentication for all access requests
Assuming no user, device, or network traffic should be trusted by default
Trusting all users and devices within the network perimeter
Zero Trust follows a never-trust, always-verify philosophy: it assumes that no user, device, or network traffic is trustworthy by default, even when requests originate from inside the corporate network. Least-privilege access and multi-factor authentication are important security practices often used within Zero Trust environments, but they are not the principle itself.
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