After years of marketing noise, Zero Trust has become a practical necessity. The drivers are simple: identity-based attacks are cheap for attackers and expensive for defenders, and perimeter security doesn’t match cloud + SaaS reality. Meanwhile, 2025’s incident patterns reinforce that third-party exposure and credential abuse are persistent risks.
What “real” Zero Trust looks like
- Strong identity: device posture + user context
- Least privilege everywhere
- Micro-segmentation for critical systems
- Continuous monitoring and anomaly response
Bottom line
If you treat Zero Trust as a product you buy, you’ll fail. Treat it as an operating model—and you’ll reduce blast radius when (not if) something breaks.