Zero Trust

Most people spend their lives running software they didn't write.

Zero Trust applies the discipline of ethical hacking - attacking a system with permission, to find its weaknesses before someone else does - to the most complex and consequential system you will ever be responsible for: yourself.

Drawing on real cybersecurity methodology - attack surface mapping, vulnerability assessment, incident response, defense in depth - this book builds a complete framework for understanding your own exposure and building genuine, lasting security into a human life.

Across thirty-six chapters, you'll learn to:

• Map your personal attack surface across six domains: financial, relational, reputational, skills and knowledge, health, and mental and emotional


• Recognize the social engineering techniques - flattery, urgency, false authority - used against you daily, often by people who mean well


• Build a "defense-in-depth" architecture instead of relying on a single point of protection


• Run a real incident response process - identification, containment, eradication, recovery - the next time life breaches a boundary


• Establish the ongoing monitoring habits that separate a one-time fix from a durable, resilient life