ZERO TRUST ARCHITECTURE IN ENTERPRISE NETWORKS WITH SOCIO-TECHNICAL PERSPECTIVE

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2025-6-12

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Demirkol, Jülide Nazlı

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In enterprise organizations, network architecture is a key component. While traditional network architecture based on perimeters, it sees trusted inside of the castle and make it vulnerable to insider threats. Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) is created for this need. It bases the principle of “never trust, always verify,” mitigates the vulnerabilities with strict identity verification, continuous monitoring, least privilege access, multi factor authentication. This study approaches enterprise network architecture as socio-technical system, focusing on both social and technical dimensions. Social dimensions as human behavior, organizational policies and culture; and technical dimensions as firewalls, VPN solutions. It is not possible to implement Zero Trust approaches in a technical way, since it is a complex socio-technical system. In a real world Zero Trust implementation tested in this study to see whether experimental results also prove the zero trust dimensions effective or not. Results show that ZTA significantly reduces the attack surface and improves an enterprise network’s security. The study concludes that combining technical solutions with social solutions, it makes more effective and sustainable cyber secure environment.

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zero trust, zero trust architecture, traditional network, enterprise networks, socio-technical system

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/114995

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