Zero Trust Engineering — Zero Trust capability maturity assessment

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Capability definition and hierarchyarchimate
Operational activity sequencesecurity
Exception and recovery activity sequencesecurity
Conformant decision branchsecurity
Denied, conditional or degraded branchsecurity
Identity-scoped information exchangec4
Context and decision inputsecurity
Policy authority and evaluationsecurity
Decision distribution and resource mediationsecurity
Enforcement decision evidencesecurity
Policy ownershiparchimate
Security control and protected resourcesecurity
Control and failure risksecurity
Conformance obligationarchimate
Capability assurancearchimate
Resource trust boundarysecurity
Activity-to-capability realizationarchimate
Logical service capability realizationarchimate
Assurance evidence collectionsecurity
Independent finding verificationsecurity
Finding-to-response processsecurity

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Governance and assurance engineering reference for zero trust capability maturity assessment, including policy, logical interfaces, recovery and assurance.

Purpose: Zero Trust capability maturity assessment. Domain: Governance and assurance. Family: assurance. Scenario trigger: Evaluate current implementation maturity of capability. Input assurance: Independent control tests, operational data and adoption coverage. Evaluation: Score measurable functional capability and evidence quality. Governing policy: Maturity rating, evidence thresholds and assessment policy. Resource-side obligation: Publish evidence-backed capability baseline and target gaps. Protected concern: Enterprise Zero Trust capability heatmap. Logical interface: Capability level acceptance criteria evidence date and confidence. Evidence: Capability tested maturity level findings and next improvement. Failure: Self-attested maturity without technical test evidence. Required recovery: Downgrade unverified rating and require objective measurement. Architectural invariant: Maturity scores must distinguish configured control from proven effective control Adoption: replace reference roles with concrete owner-controlled services. Specify exact provider/consumer identities, schema fields and classifications, signal provenance and freshness, idempotency, authorization lifetime, timeout/retry limits, observation and tamper evidence. A denied or failed operation must not silently become a permitted one. Scope: original vendor-neutral, implementation-agnostic technical reference model. Illustrative logical components and behaviors are neither a deployed system nor evidence of regulatory compliance. Package identities remain stable within the package; cross-package semantic reconciliation requires separate explicit registry support.

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Capability
Governance and assurance, Zero Trust capability maturity assessment
Role
Governance and assurance owner
Business Actor
Security telemetry or evidence producer
Activity
Evaluate current implementation maturity of capability, Verify: Independent control tests, operational data and adoption coverage, Assess: Score measurable functional capability and evidence quality, Execute: Publish evidence-backed capability baseline and target gaps, Exception: Self-attested maturity without technical test evidence, Recover: Downgrade unverified rating and require objective measurement, Verify and disposition finding
Application Component
Independent control tests, operational data and adoption coverage, Score measurable functional capability and evidence quality, Publish evidence-backed capability baseline and target gaps, Authenticated observation source, Detection and evidence correlation
Application
Enterprise Zero Trust capability heatmap
Policy
Maturity rating, evidence thresholds and assessment policy
API
Zero Trust capability maturity assessment logical interface
Message/Event Schema
Capability level acceptance criteria evidence date and confidence
Data Store
Capability tested maturity level findings and next improvement, Versioned technical finding
Control
Zero Trust capability maturity assessment enforcement assurance
Risk
Self-attested maturity without technical test evidence risk
Requirement
Maturity scores must distinguish configured control from proven effective control
Measure
Zero Trust capability maturity assessment assurance completeness
Trust Boundary
Zero Trust capability maturity assessment authority boundary
State
Control condition verified, Control gap or untrusted signal