# Zero Trust Architecture: Published by NIST

- Link: https://www.agilicus.com/zero-trust-architecture-published-by-nist/
- Published: 2020-08-26T15:56:57+00:00
- Author: Don Bowman

Zero Trust. The general premise is you move from perimeter-based security to focusing
on the user and the resource, forcing them to prove their identity to each other
on each connection. Gone are the days of the VPN as a big giant switch moving you
from infinitely untrusted to infinitely trusted.

It sounds very esoteric and “Not for me”. But it is for you. If you have recently
been working from home, and, if your company has a VPN, you know how bad that can
be. Yesterday, for example, I had a standard video conference call (Google Meet)
with a company. All 3 attendees were unable to join. The reason? They run a corporate
VPN, this means that 100% of traffic flows from their house into the company. In
turn, the company filters out all the nasty content (YouTube being the culprit here).
So, when the VPN is connected, their Internet is broken.

Do you wish you could use the device of your choice, wherever you were, and just
have to prove who you were? You can for all your personal activities (your bank,
your email), so why not your corporate?

Well, the good folks at the US National Insititude of Standards agree. And they 
have published this architecture guide to help you on your implementation. [https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-207.pdf](https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-207.pdf)

You know what’s even simpler than reading that? Call me. I’ll make it happen for
you.