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Guide · 9 Jul 2026 · 8 min
Zero Trust for a mid-market estate: identity first, network later
You do not need a greenfield network. You need verified access to the paths that actually matter.
Zero Trust is a marketing phrase until it is a list: who can reach what, from which device, after which check. Mid-market teams fail when they start with microsegmentation theatre and skip identity.
Order of operations we use: privileged accounts and MFA; email as an access path; admin paths to cloud and vCenter; then device health for the laptops that hold client data. Network segmentation comes when you know the flows — not as a first PO.
If a control cannot be operated by the people you have, it is not a control. It is a slide. CyberSafe's Zero Trust work is designed around that constraint.