Have you seen Top Gun? Not the second one, the original. It’s a great movie for sure. The flying, the music, the iconic volleyball scene. However, there is a thread, a movement, through the movie where Maverick turns from his callsign. He transforms from a “Go it alone” pilot no one can trust to a teammate, beloved and celebrated. Zero trust … Maverick’s Top Gun classmates had zero trust in the rash, undisciplined, unproven pilot. This same skepticism is at the core of today’s promotion of a new security paradigm called Zero Trust. For decades, static, network-based defenses have been employed, and even worse, they have been assumed to be effective. Nothing is further from the truth.