A financial enterprise security team mandates that every access request to sensitive payment processing services must be explicitly authenticated, authorized, and encrypted, regardless of whether the request originates from an internal office workstation or a remote home connection. Which core principle of Zero Trust Architecture does this policy directly demonstrate?
- Explicit verification of every access request regardless of user location or network originAnswer
- BImplicit trust for network traffic originating behind the internal corporate perimeter
- COne-time initial authentication at session login without subsequent resource authorization checks
- DPerimeter network firewall filtering as the primary access control mechanism for application data
Answer
Explicit verification of every access request regardless of user location or network origin
Zero Trust Architecture operates on the fundamental principle of explicit verification ('never trust, always verify'). Every access request must be continuously authenticated, authorized, and encrypted using all available context (such as user identity, location, device health, and data sensitivity) regardless of whether the request originates inside or outside the traditional corporate network.
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Zero Trust Explicit Verification Tenet