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Malicious cyber activity targeted remote monitoring and control technology at over 30 community water systems across Minnesota in late July 2026, and water cyber attacks were subsequently reported across at least 12 states. However, the underlying OT security weaknesses are not exclusive to the water sector.

Zero Trust is often summarized as “never trust, always verify.” More precisely, it is a security model built on the premise that trust should never be granted implicitly based on where a user, device, workload, or resource sits. That makes Zero Trust much bigger than deploying a particular product or turning on a handful of access policies.

Kubernetes trusts everything inside the cluster by default. Any pod can reach any other pod, IPs change with every rolling deployment, and one compromised container gives an attacker a path across your entire environment. Kubernetes zero trust replaces that default with a simple rule: Never trust, always verify, regardless of where a request comes from.

Your environment probably already looks like this. Active Directory on-prem, a couple of cloud accounts, SaaS apps the business adopted faster than security could review them, remote laptops, service accounts nobody wants to touch, and a SIEM full of logs that don't yet add up to control. That's where most first Zero Trust projects begin.

For years, VPNs have been the standard for securing remote access. But today's hybrid work environments, cloud applications, and evolving cyber threats have exposed the limitations of a security model built on implicit trust. Once a user authenticates through a traditional VPN, they often gain broad access to the corporate network. If those credentials are compromised, attackers can move laterally, access sensitive resources, and escalate an attack. Zero Trust takes a different approach.