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Mind The Gap: New Tools For Continuous Enforcement From Boot To Login

Cloudflare, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026

One of our favorite ask-me-anything questions for company meetings or panels at security conferences is the classic: 'What keeps you up at night?'

For a CISO, that question is maybe a bit of a nightmare in itself. It does not have one single answer; it has dozens. It's the constant tension between enabling a globally distributed workforce to do their best work, and ensuring that "best work" does not inadvertently open the door to a catastrophic breach.

We often talk about the "zero trust journey," but the reality is that the journey is almost certainly paved with friction. If security is too cumbersome, users find creative (and dangerous) ways around it. If it's seamless at the cost of effectiveness, it might not be secure enough to stop a determined adversary.

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