Definition
Next-gen clouds mean modern digital cloud architectures that are built using open-source software stacks that are part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Zero Trust is a security model that starts with the assumption that any network is insecure and cannot be trusted and access to any application or service is dependent on the device and user credentials. This allows an individual or employee to access any system on any network provided the device and credentials are presented.
Google shared an influential whitepaper, “BeyondCorp – A new approach to Enterprise security” in 2014 which provided a roadmap for what they were doing to flip their internal IT systems onto the internet and move to a zero-trust model.