Zero Trust World 2026 – why failure is not an option!

“Failure is not an option,” were the immortal words credited to NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz, who in the 1960s took America into space on the Mercury program and thence to the Moon and back – via the tragedy of Apollo One and the near tragedy of Apollo 13.

Isn’t that exactly like cybersecurity? That was the bold claim from Orlando-based ThreatLocker Inc. The privately held security vendor – worth a reported $1.2 billion – used Kranz’s words as the core message of its Zero Trust World 2026 conference in Florida this week. With the average cost of an enterprise cyber breach now running at $4.8 million, according to event host Adam Reid, you could argue that the organizers had a point.

But there was a subtext to the messaging as well – a valuable one about teamwork. While everyone remembers Armstrong and Aldrin landing on the Moon while Michael ...