Hardware-based Zero Trust Network Access Agent for Improved Security

Hardware-based Zero Trust Network Access Agents for Improved Security are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes network interface circuitry; machine-readable instructions; and first processor circuitry programmable by the instructions to detect, via firmware execution, a request from a device to access a resource via a zero trust network access interface; determine, via the firmware execution, a security state of the device; and based on the security state of the device, transmit the request to a host operating system (OS) via a virtual network interface, the operating system executed via second processor circuitry different than the first processor circuitry.