Zero Trust Activities: Building a Modern Cybersecurity Posture

In today’s threat landscape, trust is never assumed; it must be continuously verified. Zero Trust is more than a concept; it’s a practical, activity-based framework that strengthens your agency’s cyber resilience by verifying every user, every device, every time.

What Are Zero Trust Activities?

Zero Trust activities constitute the prescriptive actions necessary to establish a secure, adaptive, and continuously monitored cybersecurity environment. These activities are explicitly aligned with Department of Defense (DoD) and broader federal guidance to ensure compliance with the Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) mandate. By systematically addressing these activities, agencies and enterprises can achieve measurable progress toward reducing risk, ensuring mission assurance, and enhancing resilience.

The Zero Trust framework is organized into seven foundational pillars: User, Device, Application & Workload, Data, Network & Environment, Automation & Orchestration, and Visibility & Analytics. Each pillar encompasses a defined set of activities that collectively guide organizations toward full Zero Trust maturity.

	User – Identity and Access Management Ensures secure access by verifying user identity and enforcing strong authentication, authorization, and behavior-based policies. View Activities
Device Security Validates the health, compliance, and trustworthiness of all devices before granting or maintaining access to resources. View Activities	Application & Workload Protects applications and workloads by controlling access, securing software development, and minimizing attack surfaces across hybrid environments. View Activities
Data Security Focuses on protecting sensitive data through encryption, classification, and policies that enforce confidentiality and integrity throughout its lifecycle. View Activities	Network & Environment Segments and secures networks to limit lateral movement, applying least-privilege principles and context-aware controls to all traffic. View Activities
Automation & Orchestration Enables rapid, consistent, and scalable Zero Trust implementation through automated policy enforcement and integrated security workflows. View Activities	Visibility & Analytics Continuously monitors user, device, and network behavior to detect anomalies, assess risk, and inform dynamic policy decisions. View Activities

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