By By Paul Schnackenburg02/09/2026
Publication Date: 2026-02-09 00:00:00
The Zero Trust Workshop — Your Free Nitro-Boosted Cybersecurity Strategy
Paul Schnackenburg, our 1-person SOC from Down Under, explains in detail how the Zero Trust workshop guide, workbook, and assessment tool turn principles into a practical roadmap for staged adoption across people, process, and technology.
The consensus among cybersecurity professionals is that a Zero Trust-based cybersecurity strategy is the best approach, and many pundits, including myself, have been banging that drum for years now.
But the big question everyone has is how do you actually “do Zero Trust?” Where do you start? You cannot buy an application or a service, turn it on and “have Zero Trust” (notwithstanding nearly every cybersecurity vendor slapping Zero Trust stickers on their wares, but of course those stickers have now been replaced with “Agentic AI powered”). There are cultural, strategic and structural changes required, as well as tactical configurations across the board, so it’s overwhelming to even know where to start, let alone have a map to continue going.
Turns out Microsoft offers a free workshop guide, and a couple of tools that help answer those questions, handy both for partner organizations helping their clients, and for…
