The playbook stages in detail

The following tables explain the steps in each stage and who owns and drives them. These tables provide a detailed view of the end-to-end journey. The playbooks resolve these into role-specific details and guidance to provide full clarity for each role. Chapter 10, Zero Trust Playbook Roles, provides an illustrative reference for these roles and the guidance that is provided for each role.

Stage 1 – Establish a strategy

The first stage sets you up for overall success – defining a clear vision and direction, laying out the plan and prioritized roadmap to achieve it, and getting buy-in from senior stakeholders across the organization. This ensures everyone is moving in the same direction so that different teams aren’t working against each other.

Here are the steps in this stage:

1. Develop a Zero Trust vision.
2. Understand the business capabilities.
3. Understand the technical capabilities.
4. Finalize the Zero Trust...