By Brad D. Williams on May 03, 2021 at 4:38 PM WASHINGTON: Once considered by many to be merely a cyber buzzword, zero-trust security models are all the rage today. Ever since the NSA urged the defense sector to adopt zero trust, it’s been a topic top of mind for security pros, from keynotes to happy hours. Zero trust, as a concept, existed even before the term, which is a decade old now. But with remote workforces and evolving IT environments, threat actors, and cyberattacks, many believe zero trust’s time has finally come. “I think [zero-trust security] was slowly building over years,” NIST Computer Scientist Scott Rose told me in a recent interview.