NIST Standards for Zero Trust: the SP 800-204 Series
Introduction
This is the second installment in a two-part series on NIST standards for zero trust security. The first installment covers NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-207, which lays the groundwork for zero trust principles for the enterprise, but makes no specific implementation recommendations.
The follow-up series is made up of four special publications: SP 800-204, SP 800-204A, 800-204B, and 800-204C. This series is co-authored with NIST by Tetrate founding engineer Zack Butcher and takes up where SP 800-207 leaves off.
This series provides security strategies for microservices applications. It mostly focuses on communications between services and between services and a control plane, as described below, under the header Threat Background. In this article, we’ll present an overview of the most important concepts, best practices, and specific deployment recommendations in each of the four papers of the SP 800-204 series: