Zero Trust architects are a subset of security architects responsible for designing, governing, and implementing Zero Trust security architecture to enable and support business. In 2026, the role has expanded from architectural design to hands-on integration, maturity governance, and execution across identity, network, endpoint, data, application, and cloud domains. Zero Trust architects are senior security specialists and subject matter experts who turn Zero Trust guidance into architecture, enabling security teams to address challenges stemming from the dispersed and hybrid nature of an organization’s workforce, workplace, and workloads.

You can use enterprise firewall solutions to improve resilience with identity- and app-aware enforcement everywhere, lower cost and risk through unified firewall policy governance, and secure digital growth by governing human and machine traffic. But to realize these benefits, you’ll first have to select from a diverse set of vendors that vary by size, type of offering, geography, and use case differentiation. Security and risk professionals should use this report to understand the value they can expect from an enterprise firewall solutions vendor, learn how vendors differ, and investigate options based on size and market focus.

On Friday, March 6, the Trump administration released the latest US national cybersecurity strategy, President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America, alongside an executive order on combating cybercrime and fraud. The document, focused on six core pillars, is the briefest cybersecurity strategy released by the US in the last decade. The biggest challenge with the document […]

Organizations adopt Zero Trust platforms to enforce least-privilege access, segment networks, and continuously validate trust across users, devices, and workloads in consolidated manner. This buyer’s guide, informed by “The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust Platforms, Q3 2025,” explores how leading vendors support unified policy enforcement, automation, and strategic alignment. It includes insights from reference customers on deployment models, platform usability, and integration depth. Use this guide to benchmark current solutions or inform future platform selection to simplify Zero Trust adoption while maximizing resilience, visibility, and management across hybrid environments.

Every point at which packets begin, traverse, and end has the potential to become a gateway that adversaries can exploit and win command and control of critical network assets. Network security pros must protect these pathways to enhance security and promote a robust Zero Trust architecture. To advance Zero Trust, modern methods, including identity-driven segmentation, ZT network access (ZTNA), and microsegmentation, help create granular microperimeters that protect against modern, evolving threats. This report delves into the essential network tools, packet-level controls, and other security technologies that security and risk professionals should employ as their organization moves to embrace a Zero Trust strategy.

Zero Trust (ZT) is the de facto security model for many business and government organizations, but security leaders often don’t know where to begin architecting and implementing it; they can be daunted by the fundamental shifts in strategy and architecture that ZT demands. Contrary to popular belief, a Zero Trust architecture does not require ripping out current security controls and starting anew. With the right approach, security leaders can increase their ZT competence and realize security benefits right away. This report guides security leaders through a roadmap for implementing ZT using practical building blocks that take advantage of existing technology investments and current maturity.

This report guides security and risk (S&R) professionals through Forrester’s Zero Trust maturity assessment so that they can gauge where their firm is on its journey and discover which Zero Trust core competencies need strengthening. Security leaders can use this report to determine their Zero Trust maturity.

The move marks a departure from PANW's security pure-play roots. What's behind the acquisition, and what does it means for PANW and Chronosphere customers going forward?

The recent breaches at F5 and SonicWall illustrate how attackers are targeting the very infrastructure that enterprises rely on to secure and deliver digital services.

One of the biggest challenges to a Zero Trust journey can be misalignment between teams. Learn how our Zero Trust RASCI Chart can help define roles and responsibilities across the core domains of Zero Trust.