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Describe the role of identity in Zero Trust Architecture?
In Zero Trust, identity, covering users, devices, and workloads, becomes the primary control point, replacing network location as the main signal for trust decisions. This is often summarized as "identity is the new perimeter."
Strong identity assurance relies on multi-factor authentication, certificates, or hardware-backed keys rather than passwords alone, and that identity is validated continuously rather than once at login.
Identity attributes, such as role, department, or risk history, feed directly into the policy engine alongside device and context signals, so an access decision is never based on identity in isolation.
"Identity is the new perimeter" reflects that:
Identity attributes in a policy decision are typically:
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