As passengers, every time we travel through an airport we move through checkpoints to confirm our identity and that we are in the correct place. 

There are similarities between an airport and least privilege: the concept and practice of restricting access rights for users, accounts, and computing processes to only those resources absolutely required to perform routine, legitimate activities. In fact, NIST, the authors of a number of documents on Zero Trust, leverage the airport analogy to describe best practices around Zero Trust and identity. 

So what can we learn from the checks and balances of an airport to apply to our own organisations’ Zero Trust efforts? 

Join Scott Hesford, Solutions Director APJ at BeyondTrust, as he looks at the airport analogy, described by NIST in its Zero Trust documentation, and how modern PAM solutions can support the implementation of Zero Trust.