The Zero Trust concept comes with the promise to adequately secure our modern, hybrid IT world at any time and any place. Manufacturers, consultants and even analysts agree as rarely as they do that this changed architectural paradigm is an important component of modern and future-oriented security architectures. Alexei and Matthias address the question why in practice only a few powerful zero trust architectures deliver on this promise. They try to answer the question what organizations need to consider in order to get off to a good start.