What Zero Trust Success Looks Like

“Begin with the end in mind.”

– Stephen Covey

Now that we understand why Zero Trust is so important and what it involves, let’s take a look at what success looks like for this (continuous) journey.

To be blunt, the world is littered with failed technology-related projects. You can confirm this with a quick internet search for “IT project failure rate” or ask any experienced colleague in your organization for a story about a failed technology project. Zero Trust is simply too important to get wrong. We can’t risk failing because of something we could have easily avoided.

This playbook series is designed to help you avoid failure in implementing Zero Trust by using proven models and applying best practices from real-world deployments of Zero Trust and other technology projects. This helps you avoid common causes of project failure, which are sometimes called antipatterns.

This chapter discusses...