Zero Trust is one of the most marketed concepts in cybersecurity. It’s also one of the most misunderstood. If you’ve sat through enough vendor presentations, you’ve heard it positioned as a product — something you buy, deploy, and check off the maturity model. The reality is different, and the gap between the marketing narrative and…
Third-party risk has been a fixture of security program conversations for years. Most organizations with a mature GRC function have a vendor risk management process — tiering, assessments, questionnaires, contractual requirements. The process exists. The problem is that the scale and nature of supply chain attacks have outpaced what those processes were built to handle.…
Most organizations have mature processes for managing human identities. Onboarding, offboarding, access reviews, least privilege — these are established practices, even if execution is inconsistent. The problem is that human identities are no longer the majority of what’s accessing your systems. Service accounts, API keys, OAuth tokens, automation scripts, and now AI agents — non-human…