Zero Trust Architecture: Beyond the Buzzword
Most organisations say "Zero Trust" and mean "more MFA". A genuine Zero Trust architecture requires rethinking identity, network segmentation, and access policy from first principles — and it is significantly harder than any vendor will tell you.
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Unpacking what Zero Trust actually means architecturally — identity planes, policy engines, network segmentation, and the common failure modes organisations hit when they try to implement it.
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