Before changing controls, we need to understand what our Zero Trust Architecture is supposed to do. This post uses the Five Pillars—Identity, Device, Network, Application, and Data—to show how legacy security assumptions can be evaluated and transformed into better trust decisions.

Or: How I Stopped Saying Smart Things and Started Getting Decisions Let me start with a confession.Early in my career, I thought if I explained a security issue clearly enough, the business would obviously do the right thing. Reader, that is adorable. What actually happened was this: I would explain the risk, sprinkle in some impressive terminology, everyone would nod, someone would say “Good call,” and then absolutely nothing would happen. No funding, no priority, no decisio