The Effectiveness of Zero Trust Architectur<\/strong>e<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nReflection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Throughout this course, my role shifted from student to policy analyst. Each paper asked me to look at the same policy, Zero Trust Architecture, from a completely different angle, so I had to keep building new research and new arguments instead of just repeating what I already knew. The biggest challenge was learning not to treat ZTA as only a technical topic. It would have been easy to describe the same framework five times in five different ways, but I had to slow down and think about the political, ethical, and social effects it has on real people and organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Writing these papers taught me that cybersecurity policy does not exist on its own. Every decision to adopt a framework like ZTA comes with political motivations, ethical tradeoffs, and social consequences that go beyond the technology itself. I also learned how to build an argument using scholarly research instead of just my own opinion, which pushed me to think more critically about the sources I used and how they supported my point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This experience changed how I think about cybersecurity as a field. Before this course, I mostly saw cybersecurity as something technical, focused on building and defending systems. Now I understand that policy and strategy are just as important, since they determine how those systems get used and who they affect. This shift has already influenced how I approach my other projects, and it confirmed that I want to keep developing both my technical skills and my policy knowledge as I move forward in my career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This course explored how cybersecurity strategy and policy actually get made, from risk management to the relationship between cybersecurity policy and government and business institutions. Throughout the semester, I selected Zero Trust Architecture (NIST 800-207) as my focus and analyzed it through five different lenses: its development, its political implications, its ethical implications, its social… <\/p>\n
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