Microsegmentation You Can Actually Finish — Everywhere It Matters
Most segmentation projects, according to Gartner, last longer than the average tenure of the CISO. Whether you have a full deployment stuck in audit mode, a handful of firewall rules on key databases, or a legacy solution covering one environment, the gap between where you are and where you need to be is larger than most teams realize. Zero Networks automates policy creation, deploys without agents or network redesign, and segments 90%+ of your environment in 90 days.
Why Projects Stall
From Partial Segmentation to Complete Containment
Microsegmentation projects stall under the weight of manual effort and consultant dependency. Or they never really get started — a few firewall rules on key databases, VLANs on critical segments, a legacy solution covering one environment. Most organizations think they're more segmented than they actually are. The approach requires a level of manual effort, operational risk, and external dependency that no team can sustain indefinitely. That's an architecture problem.
Why Most Legacy Projects Never Reach Enforcement
Manual Rule-Writing Is the Bottleneck
Every asset needs tagging, grouping, and a hand-crafted policy. At enterprise scale that's thousands of rules — each one a potential mistake, each one requiring ongoing maintenance as the environment changes. Zero automates policy creation from actual traffic, eliminating the manual burden entirely.
Fear of Blocking the Business Keeps Teams Stuck in Audit Mode
Most segmentation tools can show what should be closed. The hard part is knowing what must stay open. When teams cannot confidently distinguish unnecessary access from business-critical connections, enforcement becomes too risky. So policies stay in audit mode, exposure stays open, and segmentation never becomes real containment.
AI Sprawl Creates Access Gaps Before You Even Start
As AI tools, agents, and automations spread across the enterprise, they create new paths between users, systems, data, and workflows. Legacy segmentation tools were not built for this pace of change — and many are themselves exposed to AI-driven abuse, from misconfigured access to over-permissioned automation and attacker-driven reconnaissance. Teams need a way to see AI-driven access, understand what is legitimate, and contain unnecessary movement before one compromised identity, endpoint, or agent becomes a broader business risk.
Microsegmentation,
Reimagined From the Ground Up.
Zero Networks automates what every other solution makes you do manually — so segmentation gets finished, enforced, and maintained without agents, consultants, or rules nobody can keep up with.
Policy Creation Is Automatic
Zero learns actual traffic patterns across every asset and builds least-privilege policies automatically. No manual tagging, no hand-written rules, no professional services required. That same automation extends to AI Control and AI Agent Control, helping teams govern new AI-driven access paths without adding more manual work. What used to take years of consulting happens in days.
Simulation Before Enforcement
Before a single policy goes live, Zero shows you exactly what will change and what it will affect. Teams can validate in simulation mode with full confidence — including access created by AI tools, agents, and automations — and flip to enforcement without fear of breaking production.
Fully Agentless — Every Asset, No Exceptions
No agents to deploy, no endpoints to maintain, no coverage gaps. Zero works over your existing infrastructure and reaches every asset — servers, endpoints, OT, legacy systems, cloud workloads, and AI-connected systems — without touching them.
90%+ Segmented in 90 Days
Average customers reach 90%+ segmentation coverage within 90 days. 39× faster than legacy vendors. 16× leaner on headcount. 30× lower annual TCO. Segmentation that actually gets finished — and keeps pace as new users, assets, AI tools, and agents enter the environment.
Every Other Approach Left You Stranded. Here's Why.
Whether you have a full deployment stuck in audit mode, a partial solution covering only your most critical systems, or a legacy approach that was never built to scale — the math on completion was never in your favor. Zero Networks changes every variable that caused the stall.
| Homegrown / Infrastructure-Based | Legacy Microsegmentation Vendors | Zero Networks |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Best Suited For | Point coverage on a handful of critical systems — not built to scale environment-wide | Enterprise scale in theory; multi-year rollouts before enterprise-wide coverage is real | Proven at enterprise scale — from thousands of assets to hundreds of thousands, segmented within 90 days |
| Deployment | VLANs, firewall rules, partial coverage | Agents on every endpoint | Agentless |
| Legacy & OT Support | Rarely covered — outside firewall/VLAN scope | Agent-dependent — legacy OS and OT/IoT devices that can't run an agent go unprotected | Native coverage of legacy and OT systems — nothing to install means nothing that can't be reached |
| Policy Rigor | Manual, based on whoever wrote the rule and when | Manual tagging and human-maintained rules — accuracy depends on someone's mental model staying current | Dynamic; Learned continuously from actual observed traffic — no drift, no missed assets, no dependency on manual upkeep |
| Visibility | Limited to what's explicitly configured | Deep process-level mapping — visibility without enforced control | Visibility that is enforcement — every mapped connection is already governed, not just observed |
| Implementation Timeline | Ongoing — never truly complete | 1-2 years on average | 90 days to 90%+ segmented |
| Network Coverage After 1 Year | 10-20% | 10-30% | 90%+ |
| Monthly Maintenance | Tens of hours | Tens of hours; often requires costly professional services | 1-2 hours |
| Policy Creation | Manual, rule by rule | Manual tagging and grouping required | Fully automated – learned from real traffic |
| Segmentation Granularity | Per site/network segment | Per server | Every asset and identity – clients, servers, OT/IoT, on-prem, cloud, AI agents |
| Outage Risk During Enforcement | High — no simulation capability | High — no simulation capability | Low — simulation mode validates before anything goes live |
| Segmentation Breadth | Area to area | Server to server | Everything to everything |
| Professional Services Required | Yes | Yes; ongoing | No |
| ROI of Switching to Zero | 87% savings for enterprise orgs | 75% savings for enterprise orgs |
Your segmentation project
doesn't have to stay stuck.
Zero Networks gets you to 90%+ enforcement in 90 days, without agents, without consultants, without starting over.
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