NSA's zero-trust maturity for AppSec: What you need to know

NSA’s Cybersecurity Information Sheet on the Zero Trust Maturity Model’s application and workload pillar provides a roadmap from preparation to advanced maturity across application inventory, secure development and integration, risk management, resource authorization, and continuous monitoring, with actionable practices like continuous authentication, least privilege, micro-segmentation, encryption, patching, container security, API protection, and ongoing assessments. Industry experts praise the guidance while urging deeper focus on API and SaaS security, human factors, and software supply chain risks, and note implementation challenges and organizational readiness as key hurdles.