Jul 20, 2026 · 43 min · 11 segments
Zero trust has a label problem. After more than a decade, the term has been stretched, diluted, and attached to products that don't come close to delivering what zero trust actually promises. In this…
Matthias ReinwarthHostAnd at that time, we really discussed an evolution of a market that you expected, that I expected, and that we discussed.
Today we want to verify to test drive now that the reports are finished, done and published.
We want to talk again about zero trust platforms and especially if all our expectations went out right and ideally what a buyer should do.
We've never done it before, but usually when we are tackling a new topic, like we are starting from a very small pool of vendors for products, for example, because zero trust, it's like complete opposite.
And the real problem is not how many quote-unquote zero-trust tools you have at your disposal, but how well can they work together to form a coherent platform.
And it was the whole point of us having to establish very strict criteria what a zero-trust platform actually is, and then reaching out to interesting vendors.
talking to them, listening to them, looking at their products, doing write-ups.
And finally, the paper is actually published today as we speak, or probably last week at the moment of you listening to our recording.
So, yes, it took us six months and the results are in and they are pretty interesting and even somewhat unexpected.
But what did we expect back in January? What was our expectation? Zero Trust Platforms has this P in it.
recapping the same statement I lost count, I repeated how many times, zero trust is not a product.
And at that time, we really discussed an evolution of a market that you expected, that I expected, and that we discussed.
Today we want to verify to test drive now that the reports are finished, done and published.
We want to talk again about zero trust platforms and especially if all our expectations went out right and ideally what a buyer should do.
We've never done it before, but usually when we are tackling a new topic, like we are starting from a very small pool of vendors for products, for example, because zero trust, it's like complete opposite.
And the real problem is not how many quote-unquote zero-trust tools you have at your disposal, but how well can they work together to form a coherent platform.
And it was the whole point of us having to establish very strict criteria what a zero-trust platform actually is, and then reaching out to interesting vendors.
talking to them, listening to them, looking at their products, doing write-ups.
And finally, the paper is actually published today as we speak, or probably last week at the moment of you listening to our recording.
So, yes, it took us six months and the results are in and they are pretty interesting and even somewhat unexpected.
But what did we expect back in January? What was our expectation? Zero Trust Platforms has this P in it.
recapping the same statement I lost count, I repeated how many times, zero trust is not a product.
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