Guest:  Sharon Goldberg, CEO and cofounder of BastionZero and a professor at Boston University Topics: What is your favorite definition of zero trust? You had posted a blog analyzing the whitehouse ZT a memo on the federal government’s transition to “zero trust”,  what caught your eye about the Zero Trust memo and why did you decide to write about it? What’s behind the federal government’s recommendations to deprecate VPNs and recommend users “authenticate to applications, not networks”? What do these recommendations mean for cloud security, today and in the future? What do you think would be the hardest things to implement in real US Federal IT environments? Are there other recommendations in the memo to think about as organizations design zero trust strategies for their infrastructure?  What are some of the challenges of implementing zero trust in general? Resources: "Zero Trust: Fast Forward from 2010 to 2021" (ep8) “Moving the U.S. Government Toward Zero Trust Cybersecurity Principles” “I read the federal government’s Zero-Trust Memo so you don’t have to”  “F12 isn’t hacking: Missouri governor threatens to prosecute local journalist for finding exposed state data”