Breaking Ambient Trust: In-Network Per-Process Access Control Against Lateral Movement
Per-process network access control—enforced in-network rather than at the host—offers a new architectural countermeasure to lateral movement, breaking the ambient trust that APTs exploit to chain footholds across enterprise segments.
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arXiv:2608.29979v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise networks remain vulnerable to Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), where adversaries gain an initial foothold and move laterally across the network, accumulating access permissions hop by hop to reach critical targets. Existing network defenses cannot track user movement at the process level across the network; instead, they grant ambient trust to all processes within a host. As a result, once a host is compromised, malicious processes i
Editorial Analysis
Lateral movement remains the top technique APTs use after initial access; enforcing per-process identity at the network layer could be a game-changer for zero-trust architectures in segmented enterprise environments.
Evaluate whether your zero-trust roadmap includes per-process network identity as a future enforcement point beyond host-based microsegmentation.
Per-process network access control represents a next-generation zero-trust enforcement layer that could materially reduce lateral-movement risk across enterprise infrastructure.
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