The concept of Zero Trust has been around since 2009, when Forrester Research first promoted it, warning organizations that it was time to overhaul the traditional method of granting unfettered access to any user or application that passed the network perimeter. Instead, every device, user, and network flow should be verified before full access is granted. In the ensuing years, thanks to many factors, the purgency to adopt the concept of Zero Trust has only grown.