Grab a cup of coffee and pull up a chair. This post kicks off a new series for ZT Foundations where we will walk through some of the key ideas from my new book, ZT Foundations: Building Zero Trust with the Tools You Already Have. My goal for this series is simple: take the mystery out of Zero Trust, talk about it in plain language, and show how it can be built from practical decisions instead of shiny buzzwords. Over the next few weeks, we will compare traditional security st

Modern auth + MFA everywhere. Short-lived tokens. No more “easy paths.” Grab a cup of coffee with me for a minute, because this is one of those security conversations that feels “technical”… right up until it becomes the headline nobody wanted. One of the fastest ways Zero Trust fails is through legacy authentication protocols that are still quietly enabled “for compatibility.” They were designed for a different era, static credentials, limited context, minimal verification,