Data Centers & National Security, Part V - Zero Trust for Infrastructure

For years, cybersecurity strategies were built around a simple idea: Protect the perimeter.

Organizations deployed firewalls, secured network boundaries, controlled access points, and focused on keeping bad actors outside the fence. If the perimeter held, the thinking went, the systems inside would remain secure. That approach made sense in a world where infrastructure was relatively self-contained.

But government data centers no longer operate in that world.