TrustWorkday: A Zero-Trust Security and Compliance Architecture for Enterprise SaaS Platforms

Abstract

Enterprise SaaS platforms have emerged as key components in today's digital transformation programs by improving efficiency, scalability, and distributed workforce support. Traditional perimeter-based security measures are inadequate in safeguarding critical data stored in enterprise environments due to their distributed nature. To overcome this problem, the present study develops a zero-trust approach called ZT-ACVRM or Zero-Trust Adaptive Compliance Verification and Risk Mitigation Framework. It provides a security architecture that is ideal for enterprise SaaS environments by combining various concepts including identity and continuous access monitoring, compliance checks, behavior analysis, threat intelligence, and adaptive authorization. Performance of the framework ZT-ACVRM was compared with WB-ZTAC and SAAM-ABA framework with the help of eight evaluation criteria. Performance of ZT-ACVRM was found to be superior and achieved accuracy of 98.4% access governance, 98.6% compliance adherence rate, 99.0% anomaly detection, 98.5% threat mitigation, 98.8% authorization decision, 98.7% trust evaluation, 98.3% risk assessment, and 99.0% overall security resilience. This clearly proves that the designed framework is indeed effective in improving the security of enterprise SaaS environment while remaining compliant and operationally efficient.