Stitching it all together with the Zero Trust Playbook

Now that we have all three pillars of the model, we can put them together and move forward on making it real at scale. We now implement sustainable and effective Zero Trust capabilities that all fit together in an actionable, living, breathing strategy—the Zero Trust Playbook.

We will next look at the overall system of three interconnected pillars and their individual components. We will introduce the six-stage plan in Chapter 9, The Zero Trust Six-Stage Plan, and then proceed to build it throughout the rest of the playbook.

Figure 8.15 describes each playbook component and how they all flow together, much like a blueprint describes all aspects of a building’s architecture:

Figure 8.15 – Zero Trust Playbook overall components and relationships

This diagram explains the relationships in the overall system:

• Each of the dark green boxes at the top of the pillars represents...