Every security model has a control plane. For decades, that control plane was the network. If you were inside, you were trusted. If you were outside, you were not. That boundary dissolved long before many organizations were ready to admit it. Cloud adoption, SaaS proliferation, distributed workforces, API-driven architectures - all of it shifted the axis of trust. The network became transport. Identity became the arbiter. In a Zero Trust model, identity is not a feature. It i

A Framework for Thinking About Modern Security Zero Trust has become one of the most widely used and widely misunderstood concepts in cybersecurity. We see it manifest as a Product Category, VPN Replacement (the version I dislike most), and slogans like – “Never Trust, Always Verify”. Zero Trust isn’t a product, a feature, or a deployment model. It’s a structural shift in how organizations evaluate risk. Zero Trust reframes a single question at its code: On what basis do we d

In this video we bring together the insights from my earlier blog posts — “ The Zero Trust Framework ” and “ SASE or SSE — That Is the Question ”. First, we’ll revisit why legacy perimeter‑based models no longer cut it and how the five‑pillar Zero Trust framework shifts the enterprise security mindset. Then we’ll explore how modern architectures like SASE and SSE fit into that framework and why choosing the right path matters for your organization. Watch on to understand not

To be SASE, or to be SSE? That’s the architectural dilemma facing today’s CIOs and CISOs. In the rapidly shifting world of enterprise...

In the intro to this series, we defined Zero Trust  as a framework that guides an organization’s strategic, operational, and technical...

In today’s interconnected world, the traditional boundaries of network security have all but disappeared. Traditional castle-and-moat...