Jwt

Zero Trust gets thrown around as a marketing term so often that it’s easy to lose sight of what it actually changes architecturally. At its core, it’s a shift in where you place trust: instead of the network edge (is this traffic coming from inside the VPN?), you trust identity (who is making this request, and can they prove it?). That shift puts three things at the center of your architecture: an Identity Provider (IDP), OAuth2, and JWTs. They are distinct tools that get conflated constantly. Here’s how they actually fit together. ...