Prior to the Zero Trust era Over the last decade, we’ve experienced three megatrends in action: mobile, cloud, and software-as-a-service (SaaS). These megatrends have redefined how we work, conduct business, and consume information. According to Gartner, global end-user spending on public cloud services is expected to exceed $480 billion in 2022 with a year-over-year growth rate of 21.7%. We were already moving away from an 8-hour day, 5-day week in the office, as employees connected to corporate networks from their homes or while traveling with laptops and smartphones. But the pandemic put this movement into overdrive, accelerating the work-from-anywhere trend due to shelter-in-place mandates. Within the tech world, this turned all but the most essential workers into a fully remote workforce overnight. Meanwhile, the steady increase in hybrid IT environments continues to impose new and complicated IT and security requirements. Where data centers used to operate mission-critical applications.