Devices used to mean laptops and phones. Now they mean containers, microservices, and AI agents that can act on their own. This week's Zero Trust Foundations post runs the AAVI model through the Device pillar, with real 2026 breach headlines showing what happens when device and workload trust gets skipped, whether the "device" in question has a keyboard or not.

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

So pull up a chair, grab a cup of coffee, and let’s get real for a minute about Zero Trust. Not the polished conference-slide version. Not the tidy marketing version. The real version. The version where meaningful change is hard, legacy assumptions get challenged, and progress usually starts with a few uncomfortable truths. Let’s be honest: starting the Zero Trust journey can feel a little like deciding to renovate your house while you’re still living in it. You know it needs