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Zero-trust architecture is a cybersecurity model that assumes no user, device, network, or workload is trusted by default. Every access request must go through continuous authentication, authorization, and validation based on identity, device posture, and contextual factors. These checks limit how far an attacker can move inside a system and reduce the potential impact of a breach.\u00a0A simple way\u00a0to see this is that zero-trust architecture treats every connection as untrusted, even if it appears to come from inside the network.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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