Zero Trust for Cloud-Native Systems Is More Than Network Segmentation
Technology teams are moving quickly in cloud security, but useful adoption depends on understanding both the opportunity and the operational risk.
What is changing
Containers and serverless workloads are short-lived and communicate through APIs. Static network location is a weak trust signal in environments that change continuously.
What technology leaders should do
Issue workload identities, authenticate service-to-service calls, enforce policy centrally and remove long-lived cloud credentials.
The practical goal is not to adopt every new capability. It is to choose a clear use case, establish measurable success criteria, and build security and accountability into the system from the beginning.
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