Building a start-up usually means moving fast and fixing things later. This often includes getting ideas out the door quickly to test a feature with their client base, to demonstrate progress to prospective customers, or even secure additional funding. As a result, security becomes an after-thought, requiring organizations to retrofit their architecture to “never trust, always verify” while scaling.

Drawing on my experience implementing Zero Trust at start-ups in government adjacent industries, I’ll show why starting out with a Zero Trust mindset can save you a lot of headache later on. We’ll discuss how to implement the core principles with limited hands, the lack of a “perimeter” when it comes to remote-first start-ups, and how to bake identity-based security into your Day Zero workflow without slowing down your development cycles.