Building the Trust Fabric: Why Zero Trust Alone Isn't Enough in the AI Era
When I was asked to design the security architecture for a national-scale insurance data ecosystem — one that aggregates sensitive data from every insurance company across an entire country — I quickly realised that Zero Trust, as most organisations implement it, would not be sufficient. Zero Trust was designed for a world where humans authenticate and access systems. It was not designed for a world where AI agents authenticate, reason over sensitive data, make decisions, and call other agents — all within milliseconds, at scale, without a human in the loop. ...