The biggest shift in security over the last decade has been from perimeter-based approaches to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_trust_security_model. But what people don’t talk about is how zero trust requires a similar shift from coarse-grained to fine-grained security.

Moving to a fine-grained access control model involves one or more of the following techniques: Defining Fine-Grained Permissions as the Basis for Access Control

Access control policies should make it possible to combine environment-based attributes with other fine-grained access control techniques.

Here, too, the coarse-grained security mindset of the past is giving way to the fine-grained security approach.

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