Traditional security and networking approaches don’t support or protect today’s hybrid and distributed workforce, which requires secure user access anywhere, anytime. The solution? A cloud-managed and delivered convergence of networking and security function, which Forrester calls the Zero Trust edge (ZTE) model. Forrester predicts that in its final form, ZTE will fully combine networking and security with Zero Trust security principles and software-defined networking for an integrated set of cloud-delivered and managed services