It’s Official: Zero’s Customers are the Happiest Microsegmentation Users
Published January 28, 2026
Nicholas DiCola VP of Customers
If you’ve followed Zero for any amount of time, we hope you’ve seen how much our customers mean to us. We are so grateful for each of them – they’ve joined us at our Black Hat booths, starred in a plethora of customer story videos, and worked with us to create outcome- and data-driven case studies. But how do they really feel about us when the Zero team leaves the room – when the proof is in our product and how it affects their day-to-day, their real security outcomes?
We count on Gartner Peer Reviews to give us honest, no-holds-barred feedback. And that feedback is why we are celebrating the recently published Gartner Peer Insights “Voice of the Customer for Network Security Microsegmentation” report.
Zero Networks earned a perfect 5 out of 5 star rating, the highest scores in every evaluation category, and was the only organization to earn a 100% willingness-to-recommend score.
Microsegmentation Failed Security Practitioners. Zero Rebuilt It.
We’ve heard it all about microsegmentation – “nightmare,” “...standing up new servers means a solid month of arguing back and forth with product owners on what the actual network requirements [are],” “We were years in... [but] we were maybe 60% implemented.”
Practitioners all know that microsegmentation is a hellscape if you try to achieve it on your own, and no one wants to go to a big vendor with years-long implementation timelines just to get partial segmentation.
We didn’t rebuild microsegmentation because the idea was wrong – we rebuilt it because the way it had been delivered failed the people responsible for making it work. Traditional approaches forced practitioners to manually tag assets and define policies, negotiate application dependencies, and manage static rules in environments that change constantly. The result was predictable: stalled projects, shallow segmentation coverage, and security teams carrying the operational burden for controls that were supposed to reduce risk.
Zero Networks rejected traditional, network-only microsegmentation – and rebuilt it as identity-based microsegmentation, where identity governs reachability at the network layer and enforcement holds up in real-world attacks, not diagrams or best-case assumptions. Zero provides immediate visibility into every identity and asset on the network, then automatically enforces adaptive, identity-aligned policies that prevent lateral movement by default. The average Zero customer segments 90% of their environment within 90 days, not years, without manual rule-writing or operational sprawl.
By tightly coupling identity and network enforcement, Zero helps organizations prevent attacks, minimize blast radius, and maintain business continuity – even when attackers get inside. Every connection is verified and intentional. Automated, adaptive enforcement eliminates long-term operational debt while enabling teams to scale protection across production environments. Microsegmentation becomes a control for threat containment and continuity, not a long-running policy exercise. The result is simpler, more resilient security that preserves uptime, protects revenue, and strengthens cyber resilience as environments evolve.
The Gartner Peer Insights “Voice of the Customer for Network Security Microsegmentation” report is validation from the people who matter most to us – real Zero Networks customers with firsthand experience deploying and operating Zero in production.
Microsegmentation, As Experienced by Real Users
The Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer report reflects the experiences of practitioners who have deployed microsegmentation at scale – not in theory, not in pilots, but in live production environments. Zero Networks earned a perfect 5 out of 5 overall rating, the highest scores across every evaluation category, and was the only vendor in the report with a 100% willingness-to-recommend score.
Customers consistently highlighted fast time to value, ease of deployment, and the ability to operate at scale – areas that have historically been the biggest barriers to microsegmentation adoption. While many organizations continue to struggle with multi-year projects and incomplete coverage, Zero Networks customers described rapid rollouts, straightforward operations, and broad enforcement across complex, evolving environments.
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This recognition highlights how customers are assessing microsegmentation based on real-world deployment and operational outcomes. Across the report, practitioners pointed to fast deployment, ease of use, and the ability to operate at scale as key indicators of success. The feedback reinforces that when microsegmentation is implemented with automation and identity at its core, it can deliver meaningful protection without the operational complexity that has traditionally held organizations back.
We’re grateful to our customers for their trust, their candid feedback, and their partnership – and we’re proud to see their real-world experiences setting a new standard for what microsegmentation should deliver.
If you’re ready to move beyond stalled microsegmentation projects and see what identity-based microsegmentation looks like in production, start a conversation with Zero Networks →