Among the longstanding challenges that information security leaders have grappled with for years, one stands out: the difficulty of balancing user experience and security. The traditional tug-of-war between ease of access to business-critical applications and resources and robust protection from hackers has never been easy. Until now. The unprecedented demands that the events of 2020/21 have placed on IT and security teams have tested their flexibility, inventiveness and resolve. But they’ve also had a silver lining. Across industries — particularly in those that are highly regulated or have trended towards early adoption of cloud technologies — interest and investments in Zero Trust security initiatives are at an all-time high. We surveyed more than 600 security decision-makers across North America, Asia-Pacific (APAC), and Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) for our recent 2021 State of Zero Trust Security report and discovered that 90% of organisations are currently working on Zero.