Cyber security · Interactive model

Castle vs Zero Trust

Attackers rarely land where they want to end up. They get a foothold on one ordinary laptop, then move sideways — laptop to server to database. The question that decides how bad it gets: once they're inside, does your network trust them? Press Compromise and watch the same breach play out in a flat "castle" network and a zero-trust one.

🏰 Castle-and-moat

Hard perimeter, soft inside — everyone inside is trusted

—of network compromised

🛡️ Zero trust

Never trust, always verify — every hop is re-checked

—of network compromised

Both networks are identical — only the trust model differs.