New Microsoft guidance for the CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model

This blog post previews Microsoft’s guidance for aligning with CISA’s Zero Trust Maturity Model, detailing how Microsoft cloud services (Entra ID, Intune, Defender XDR, Sentinel, Purview, Azure networking, GitHub) map to the model’s five pillars and cross-cutting capabilities. It explains maturity stages from Traditional to Optimal, highlights Microsoft’s Zero Trust platform and integrations, and provides brief customer examples from the USDA (phishing-resistant MFA) and the U.S. Navy (Zero Trust implementation) to illustrate practical adoption.