Zero Trust is the most cited cybersecurity principle of the past decade and the most uneven in implementation. The principle — never trust, always verify — is sound. The implementations vary from genuine architectural change to repackaged perimeter products with new branding. PULSE's position is that the principle is correct and most implementations of it are not.
ZERO TRUST, RECONSIDERED — STRUCTURAL ARGUMENT
If the underlying data store remains reconstructable by a sufficiently privileged compromised process, Zero Trust at the policy layer is a quality-of-deployment improvement, not a structural change. The adversary that obtains the right credential set still obtains the data.
PULSE implements Zero Trust at the substrate layer. The trust assumption is not minimised — it is removed. Authorised access produces presentation-layer outputs. The underlying corpora are not, in any reconstructable form, in the path of any compromised process.
An authorised analyst sees the records they are authorised to see. A compromised analyst account, in our environments, does not produce a usable extraction of the underlying corpus. The path between authentication and useful output is engineered such that the useful output exists only at the moment of authorised consumption.
— PULSE POSITION
Zero Trust as a policy is a discipline. Zero Trust as an architecture is the removal of the trust assumption from the substrate. Most implementations of the term are the first thing. We engineer the second.
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