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Zero Trust Roadmap Worksheet

Rate your zero trust state against NIST's seven tenets and five pillars, inventory what users reach through the VPN, and score a ZTNA shortlist.

First page of Zero Trust Roadmap Worksheet

What's inside

  • NIST SP 800-207's seven tenets, each with your current state, evidence, owner and next step.
  • The five pillars and three cross-cutting themes of CISA's maturity model, with current and target state and the gap between them.
  • NIST's three access-decision components, and which product or team fills each today.
  • An inventory of what users reach through the VPN: protocol, users, managed or unmanaged devices, and whether each needs agent or agentless access.
  • ZTNA scoring on six capability domains with starting weights from the CIOPages Buyer Guide, for up to four vendors.
  • Twelve questions to put to each ZTNA vendor.

Format: PDF (3 pages) and Excel workbook.

How to use it

Use it to set the order of a zero trust program and to run a VPN replacement shortlist. The Excel version calculates the gaps and scores; the PDF is for working on paper.

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