Zero Trust Application Delivery: How Load Balancers Enforce Identity and Access

See how the application delivery layer can help close critical Zero Trust gaps by enforcing identity, access and inspection policies directly in the traffic path.

Most Zero Trust programs start with identity, endpoints and network access. But after a user is authenticated, every application request still needs to be evaluated, authorized and inspected before it reaches the backend. This white paper explains why the load balancer or application delivery controller is a practical Policy Enforcement Point for Zero Trust Application Delivery.

Read the white paper to learn how load balancers can support identity-aware access, request-level authorization, WAF inspection, continuous verification and policy-based routing across human-to-application and service-to-service traffic.

In this white paper, you will learn how to:

• Identify where endpoint-only and VPN-based Zero Trust approaches can leave application traffic exposed.
• Use the load balancer as a Policy Enforcement Point for identity, access control and inspection.
• Apply Zero Trust principles to both user access and service-to-service communication.
• Plan practical first steps for implementing Zero Trust Application Delivery without redesigning every application.

Download the white paper to learn how to strengthen Zero Trust where users, services and applications actually connect.