Zero Trust
Category: Infrastructure“ZEE-roh TRUST”
A security approach where every request is verified every time, even from inside your own network or from your own AI.
Lesson #9: Securing AI Agents: Cybersecurity Essentials →Badging in at every door, not just the front gate.
Your bank asks for a code again before a big transfer, even though you already logged in.
The field agent re-authenticates before writing to job costs, even though it is already running on company hardware.
An internal service checks the caller's identity on every request instead of assuming internal traffic is safe.
Once agents run inside your systems, 'inside means safe' stops being true — every action needs its own check.
Zero trust verifies every request instead of trusting anything by location.
Ask whether any of your systems trust a request just because it came from inside the office network.
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