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Buyer’s Guide: Zero Trust Platforms, 2025

Considerations For Meaningful Zero Trust Platform Investments

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Jan 30, 2026

Summary

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.

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