Zero trust is a comprehensive security strategy that is designed to protect all hardware, software, data, and users on an organization’s network and in the cloud. A zero trust approach to security differs from the more traditional perimeter defense strategy. In a perimeter defense, the organization protects the boundaries of its private network with firewalls and multilayered software security solutions to regulate and filter traffic to and from the public network. Once a user or device has been verified and admitted to the private network, it is typically treated as a trusted resource. By con