Goals:

1.) Configure a working Zero Trust Network (ZTN) with device management, robust and secure control plane, and seamless connection with well-defined policies.

2.) Write a report/technical guide and a white paper about configuring and implementing ZTN’s.

3.) Develop standards for Network Agent implementations as well as Trust Engines.

Technology stack:

Data Plane (Phase 1):

    Apache Webserver – CS Dept FreeBSD server 
    
    MySQL Database – Jim 3-core 8GB of RAM 1TB Storage 
    
    Active Directory – Pam 3-core 8GB of RAM 250GB Storage 
    
    PfSense – Raspberry Pi 
    
    ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK stack) - John’s laptop 4-Core w/ 24GB of RAM 
    
    Squid Access Proxy – Josh’s laptop

Control Plane (Phase 2):

    Policy engine (Open Policy Agent) 
    
    Trust Engine 
    
    Network Agents 
    
    Public Key Infrastructure (X.509 standard)

Equipment/Resources:

    2x 6 core AMD w/ 16 GB servers 
    
    4 core I7 w/24 GB Laptop 
    
    2 core I5 w/ 4 GB Macbook 
    
    School CS servers 
    
    Raspberry pie 
    
    Network router and switch 
    
    O’Reilly Zero Trust Networks Book

Initial Plan

Goals:

Technology stack:

Data Plane (Phase 1):

Control Plane (Phase 2):

Equipment/Resources:

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