Major Cybersecurity and Zero-Trust Developments (June–July 2025)
NIST published Special Publication 1800-35, “Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture,” in June 2025, offering 19 example ZTA implementations built with off-the-shelf commercial technologies. Gartner forecast that by the end of 2025, 60% of enterprises will embrace zero trust as a starting point for security. Illumio and NVIDIA announced an OT Zero Trust Segmentation partnership in June 2025 to run Illumio’s microsegmentation on NVIDIA BlueField DPUs for agentless enforcement in OT and data-center environments. Cisco at Cisco Live on June 10, 2025 unveiled Universal ZTNA and a Hybrid Mesh Firewall to extend identity-driven zero-trust policy across users, devices, and AI agents,