2022-07-11T10:26:00Z

How is Zero Trust different from the Least Privileged model?

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2022-07-12T05:45:51Z
Jul 12, 2022

Least Privilege is about giving the least privilege (role and privilege) as required by the user, while Zero Trust completely eliminates trust at a whole level, whether internal or external. 


Zero Trust sample is MFA, where you would need to validate your access credentials (e.g., through biometrics).

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Jul 12, 2022

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2022-07-12T10:46:02Z
Jul 12, 2022

Least privilege access is used to provide access needed to perform a role or action, which is good, while Zero trust completely assumes every attempt as a possible compromise and treats it as such. 


If something with the least privilege access tries to access any resource in an environment where Zero Trust is implemented, Zero trust will still take precedence.

LN
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2022-07-13T13:29:04Z
Jul 13, 2022

Zero Trust is the same approach for all users (for example internal and external) - for example, OTP. 


The Least Privileged approach defines access rules based on user role. It is common and recommended to combine these two approaches. An attacker has to first break user access (get user id, password, token/device). Regardless of the attacker having access, the role-based access implemented as the Least Privileged approach minimizes abuse risk.

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