Everything you need to know about NIST’s new guidance in “SP 1800-35: Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture”

For decades, the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been guiding industry efforts through the many publications in its Computer Security Resource Center. NIST has played an especially important role in the adoption of Zero Trust architecture, through its series of publications that began with NIST SP 800-207: Zero Trust Architecture, released in 2020.

NIST has released another Special Publication in this series, SP 1800-35, titled "Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA)" which aims to provide practical steps and best practices for deploying ZTA across various environments.  NIST’s publications about ZTA have been extremely influential across the industry, but are often lengthy and highly detailed, so this blog provides a short and easier-to-read summary of NIST’s latest guidance on ZTA.

And so, in this blog post:

• We summarize the key items you need to know about this new NIST publication, which presents a reference architecture for Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) along with a series of “Builds” that demonstrate how different products from various vendors can be combined to construct a ZTA that complies with the reference architecture.

• We show how Cloudflare’s Zero Trust product suite can be integrated with offerings from other vendors Continue reading