A regional energy provider is transitioning its remote field maintenance operations to a Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA). Previously, field technicians authenticated once via Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to establish a Virtual Private Network (VPN) session, granting them unrestricted access to internal grid management servers for their entire shift. To align with core Zero Trust principles and eliminate implicit trust, which of the following architectural changes should the security team implement?
- Implement a Policy Decision Point (PDP) that continuously evaluates device security posture and request context before a Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) grants access to individual resources.Cevap
- BRequire field technicians to re-authenticate at the VPN perimeter gateway using hardware tokens every four hours to automatically extend network segment authorization.
- CConsolidate technician credentials into a central directory service so that successful identity authentication automatically grants static authorization across all internal subnets.
- DDeploy perimeter web application firewalls to filter malicious payloads from external networks before traffic reaches internal field maintenance portals.
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Implement a Policy Decision Point (PDP) that continuously evaluates device security posture and request context before a Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) grants access to individual resources.
The correct option aligns directly with Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) by removing implicit network trust. In a ZTA framework (such as NIST SP 800-207), access to individual resources is evaluated on a per-request basis by a Policy Decision Point (PDP) using continuous contextual telemetry (such as device compliance, location, and user identity), and enforced at a Policy Enforcement Point (PEP).
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