Microsoft’s position paper on Zero Trust highlights lessons from real-world deployments, emphasizing the need for continuous verification, least privilege access, and automated threat detection. It recommends applying Zero Trust across identities, endpoints, networks, applications, data, and infrastructure to minimize attack surfaces. Key trends include unified policy enforcement, deeper automation, and integration across security pillars. A maturity model guides organizations from basic MFA and segmentation to advanced analytics and dynamic policy enforcement. Zero Trust is positioned as critical for securing hybrid work and modern digital estates.

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