Zero Trust is a concept put forth by Forrester, a respected technology analyst firm that describes a new architecture for information security that is data-centric rather than focused on securing specific hardware and networks. It has gradually been gaining popularity in enterprise IT as more and more corporate data resides in/transits public clouds and the internet, where traditional perimeter defenses such as firewalls and anti-virus protection are less effective. However, up until 2019, it had largely been adopted by larger organizations that are far along in the cybersecurity maturity scale or by small, cloud-native startups who did not have a large investment in legacy security hardware and software like VPNs. Enter 2020 and the global pandemic, which changed everything, including how we look at network security and Zero Trust.