Zero Trust Was Built for People and Workloads

Many implementations of Zero Trust assume a person is at the other end of the connection. That assumption is now the problem.

The core principles still hold. Verify explicitly. Enforce least privilege. Assume breach. None of those are wrong, and none of them go away when autonomous agents enter the environment. What changes is the entity being verified. NIST SP 800-207, the Zero Trust Architecture publication, talks about subjects and access, including applications and other non-human entities. It does not have much to say about a subject that authenticates without a human present, spawns child processes, and takes destructive action three hops away from any person who could be held answerable.

That gap is where enterprise identity architecture is quietly straining right now.

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