Zero Trust is governed here—by sovereignty.
Zero Doctrine™ was created to correct a foundational error in modern cybersecurity: the assumption that trust can be managed on hostile terrain.
Zero Trust focuses on verification inside connected systems.
Zero Doctrine removes the terrain itself.
This doctrine establishes sovereignty first, then governs all access, movement, and operation as a matter of law. It does not optimize exposure. It eliminates it architecturally.
The Three Core Tenets
Zero Internet™
Mission systems do not operate on the public Internet. The Internet is treated as deception terrain—useful for observation and misdirection, never as an operating base.
Zero Exposure™
Systems are designed so attackers have nothing to reach. Access paths are removed, attack surfaces are collapsed, and dependency is eliminated rather than managed.
Zero Cross‑Contamination™
Failure is isolated to its point of origin. Breaches do not propagate. Authority, identity, and movement are contained by enforceable boundaries.
Together, these tenets establish environments where compromise cannot cascade and recovery does not inherit contamination.
Internet as Deception Terrain
Under Zero Doctrine™, the Internet is not neutral infrastructure.
It is hostile terrain.
Operating mission systems on open terrain guarantees exposure, inherited trust, and uncontrollable reach. Zero Doctrine rejects this assumption entirely.
The Internet is reframed as a honeypot—
a space for engagement, deception, signaling, and observation—
never for authority, identity origination, or mission execution.
Control planes do not depend on it.
Identity does not originate from it.
Recovery does not traverse it.
Once the Internet is removed from the operational chain, Zero Trust becomes enforceable rather than aspirational. Learn more →