Zero trust is a cybersecurity framework that assumes that no user should be automatically trusted. By 2025,Gartner analysts predict that 60% of organizationswill be adopting zero-trust principles. Yet, it can be difficult to implement a full blown zero-trust architecture because IT teams often must first retool systems and deploy many new components. Consequently, the first zero-trust solution many IT teams deploy on their zero-trust journey is zero-trust network access (ZTNA). ZTNA improves security by performing user identity and device posture checks before granting the user or device expli…