Seriously, 15 Years of Zero Trust and People *Still* Don’t Get It

Oh joy. Another article about Zero Trust. Like we haven’t been screaming this into the void for a decade and a half? Fine, let me dumb it down for you again. Basically, the old “trust but verify” model is dead. Dead as disco. Everything – and I mean *everything* – needs constant authentication and authorization. No more cozy little network perimeters because those are just invitations for assholes to waltz right in.

The article whines about how attacks are getting worse, ransomware is rampant, and supply chains are a mess. No shit, Sherlock! That’s precisely why Zero Trust exists. It’s not some fancy new buzzword; it’s admitting that your network is already compromised or *will be*. It’s about minimizing the blast radius when (not if) someone gets in.

They talk about microsegmentation, least privilege access, and continuous monitoring. Groundbreaking stuff, really. It’s all just common sense security practices that people ignored for years because “it’s too hard” or “it impacts user experience.” Well guess what? A data breach impacts your business a *lot* more than slightly inconveniencing Chad in accounting.

And of course, they mention the NIST framework. Because everything has to be tied back to NIST these days. Look, frameworks are fine, but actually implementing something is what matters. Stop writing reports and start securing your damn systems!

The bottom line? Zero Trust isn’t optional anymore. It’s the bare minimum for survival in this dumpster fire of a threat landscape. If you haven’t started, you’re just asking to be the next headline.

Related Anecdote: I once had to rebuild an entire network because some idiot thought it was a good idea to leave the default credentials on a critical server. Default. Credentials. On a production system. I swear, sometimes I think people actively *try* to get hacked just so they have something interesting to do. It’s infuriating.

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Source: Dark Reading – 15 Years of Zero Trust