Never trust. Always verify.
Protect against sophisticated attacks — inside and outside the network — with zero trust security.
Zero trust strategy
Focus on protecting the right surfaces
Zero trust is not simply a set of tools or a single technology solution. A comprehensive zero trust strategy prevents and contains breaches and reduces the risk of inherent trust granted in digital systems. Rather than relying on traditional perimeter-based defenses, zero trust strategy focuses on identifying and safeguarding protect surfaces, which are small, manageable groupings of data, applications, assets and services.
By changing your perspective from the traditional attack surface to a focused protect surface, moving from reactive to proactive, you can begin to align tools and investments with business goals, drive risk-based security across the organization and boost resilience efforts.
$4.88 million
The global average cost of a data breach last year, per incident, a 10% increase over the previous year and the highest total ever
95%
The percent of data breaches that involve the use of stolen credentials
1 in 3
The amount of data breaches last year that involved shadow data outside the organization's centralized IT management
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Our approach to accelerating zero trust adoption
Avoid delays by aligning the business upfront
Zero Trust is a security framework that never assumes trust, continuously verfies, and limits access. It's a mindset shift that helps organizations stay resilient, compliant, and ready for the future. Our approach integrates strategy development into the Zero Trust Maturity Model for continuous improvement. We go beyond the basics to ensure it aligns with your business goals.
Executive Engagement
We work with leadership to define success, secure resources, and align security with business priorities.
Governance Council
A dedicated team manages the plan, sets standards, and tracks progress.
Resource Prioritization
We identify your most critical assets and apply Zero Trust principles to protect them first.
How we build scalable Zero Trust programs
We engage with your organization and stakeholders to assess the current landscape from both business and technical perspectives.
By working within the business, we create a comprehensive strategy that maximizes investments and provides a guide for a zero trust architecture and culture.
Discovery
By engaging all stakeholders, we assess your organization's readiness, understand your current state, desired state state, and any existing barriers. All impacted policies, processes, tools, and critical applications are determined.
Evaluation
In a review of the current architecture and controls, we examine the maturity of Zero Trust Maturity Model (ZTMM) functional areas. A prioritization list of resources/subjects is developed.
Design
We develop a unique risk matrix, a decision tree, controls, and guidance for architectures, policy, tools, segmentation and more. A comprehensive Zero Trust strategy roadmap is created.
Implementation
The recommended technologies and/or controls, tactical roadmaps and LLDs and metrics design are delivered. Iterations are made based on your specific risk profile and desired outcomes.
Zero trust solutions
Accelerate adoption through standards-based architecture
Our zero trust solutions are purposefully aligned to the NIST zero trust framework to help you confidently build secure, scalable environments. This alignment enables interoperability within regulated industries, federal mandates and partner ecosystems. It also allows modular deployment tailored to each organization's maturity and risk profile.
By mapping our portfolio of security capabilities and zero trust technology to the five core pillars — identity, devices, networks, applications and data — we help organizations operationalize zero trust strategy with clarity, confidence and measurable outcomes.
Industry-specific zero trust solutions
Zero trust solutions tailored for industries
Whether navigating complex regulatory landscapes or protecting critical infrastructure, WWT helps organizations implement scalable, resilient zero trust solutions that reduce risk, enhance visibility and maintain compliance. Our deep expertise across verticals ensures our zero trust services are aligned to business priorities specific to your industry vertical.
Financial
Financial institutions face rising threats from fraud, identity theft, and increasingly complex regulatory demands.
Healthcare
Healthcare providers are under constant pressure from ransomware and data breaches.
Government
Public sector organizations must defend against insider threats while maintaining strict compliance.
Manufacturing
Industrial environments are increasingly targeted by cyber attacks on operational technology (OT) and control systems.
Retail
Retailers face constant risk from point-of-sale breaches, fraud and supply chain vulnerabilities.
Education
Educational institutions must safeguard student data and research while supporting hybrid learning.
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Zero trust FAQs
Learn why zero trust solutions are critical
Explore common questions about zero trust strategy, technology and implementation to better understand how these solutions strengthen cybersecurity across industries.
A zero trust strategy is a cybersecurity framework that assumes no user or device — inside or outside the network — should be trusted by default. Instead, it enforces continuous verification of identity, device health and access permissions before granting access to resources. This "never trust, always verify" approach helps protect critical assets by minimizing attack surfaces and preventing lateral movement within networks.
Zero trust is essential in today's threat landscape, where traditional perimeter-based defenses are no longer sufficient. With remote work, cloud adoption and increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks, organizations must shift to a model that limits implicit trust and enforces granular access controls. Zero trust solutions reduce risk, improve compliance and support business resilience by aligning security with operational priorities.
Implementing zero trust begins with identifying "protect surfaces" — critical data, applications and assets — and applying strict access policies around them. Success requires strategic planning, stakeholder alignment, and incremental deployment. Organizations should start small, measure progress with relevant metrics, and integrate zero trust technologies like identity management, micro-segmentation and continuous monitoring to build a scalable zero trust architecture.
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