Authenticating the Authenticators: A Zero Trust Thought Experiment

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? This first-century Latin phrase translates as “Who watches the watchmen?”, and has made its way through classical philosophy and into popular culture. (Fellow Watchmen fans, I’m thinking of you). Fast-forwarding 2,000 years into our familiar domain of information security, this question remains relevant to our modern authentication best practices and Zero Trust. To put this in perspective, let’s look at the recent (and unfortunately successful) attack at Microso...

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