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What is Zero Trust?

A security model that trusts no user or device by default — even inside the corporate network — and verifies every access request continuously.

Zero Trust is a security architecture that assumes breach: no user, device, or network is trusted by default, and every access decision is evaluated based on identity, device health, and context. In practice it means moving away from implicit trust based on being on the corporate network, toward continuous verification at each access point. Zero Trust is not a product; it is a design philosophy implemented through identity, device, and network controls — which is why every vendor pitching a "Zero Trust platform" is selling a piece of it, not the whole.