Everyone talks about Zero Trust — but very few organizations actually know how to implement it successfully.

In this episode of CISO Tradecraft, host G. Mark Hardy is joined by George Finney, a practicing CISO who literally wrote the book on Zero Trust and has implemented it in one of the most challenging environments imaginable: higher education.

Together, they break down:

• Why Zero Trust is a strategy, not a product
• Why most Zero Trust initiatives fail due to people and politics, not technology
• How attackers exploit trust and lateral movement
• How to implement Zero Trust without destroying culture or productivity
• What changes when AI enters the trust ...