# The Zero Trust plan our hero needs

By [Doug Lane](https://paragraph.com/@axalane) · 2022-03-30

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In [yesterday’s note](https://mirror.xyz/axalane.eth/KffFql-4OWOwdyXXuNg_YmwdVrhnNTN6Y9LIQR4eFbc), I alluded to an opportunity we’ve all missed to give security buyers a clear and understandable plan for Zero Trust.

That's not to say that there isn’t some great work being done by security vendors on Zero Trust. Many address very substantive aspects of it and do a great job of explaining how.

The problem is that the end-to-end journey to a Zero Trust Architecture is so complex and organization-specific that no vendor wants to jump in with both feet. They want to sell their piece – ideally first – and move on.

I don’t necessarily blame anyone for this. Hitting sales targets is important too. And getting dragged into the weeds on every organization’s multi-year Zero Trust initiative isn’t a great playbook for that.

But I do think security vendors could be doing more to map their capabilities – and those of their alliance partners – onto some type of broader Zero Trust roadmap for buyers.

Let’s explore this a bit in the coming days.

\-Doug

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*Originally published on [Doug Lane](https://paragraph.com/@axalane/the-zero-trust-plan-our-hero-needs)*