zero trust.

A security approach that requires explicit, context-appropriate verification and authorization rather than treating network location or prior access as sufficient trust.

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Words that belong together

• zero-trust architecture
• a zero-trust policy

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The station’s zero-trust policy required a new authorization for the sealed archive.

Zero trust changed the access rules without resolving every hardware weakness.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Usually uncountable security term. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.