What is Zero Trust? (Really)

A DECADE IN THE MAKING

Although it can seem that Zero Trust (ZT) is a new evolution, the strategic approach and many factors driving it have been present since the early 2010s. Especially during the last decade, IT and business have undergone transformative shifts, but security fundamentals have not. Cloud, increased digitalization, remote work, as-a-service solutions, and dozens of other shifts change how enterprises engage with technology. Security, instead, has attempted to increasingly scale the same approaches or add on narrow safeguards without any foundational change. New enterprise, old security.