A network attacker exploits application flaws to compromise critical systems in the organization with these objectives: - Obtain sensitive data and export the data out of the network - Compromise…

Once applications and transaction flows are discovered, Zero Trust architecture requires enforcing least-privilege access policies combined with microsegmentation, creating granular network segments that prevent attackers from moving laterally between systems and from exfiltrating data even after an initial foothold is established.

Visibility and behavior modeling is performed during the earlier discovery and mapping phases, not as the step that immediately follows completed application discovery.

Ensuring trustworthiness of systems is a continuous validation principle woven throughout Zero Trust, not a discrete sequential step triggered by completing discovery.

Assessing real-time security health is an ongoing monitoring activity that spans all phases of Zero Trust and is not a specific next step that follows application discovery.