Choosing a Zero Trust platform starts with one question: what traffic does it have to carry? This Buyer’s Compass from KuppingerCole Analysts, written by Alexei Balaganski and commissioned by NetFoundry, helps you answer it for people, workloads, machines and AI agents.
“No solution on the market covers every use case, and many vendors have focused on securing human access while machine-to-machine connectivity remains far less well served.” — KuppingerCole Analysts
Inside the report:
- Top Use Cases
- Top Functional Selection Criteria
- Use Case to Capability Mapping
- Considerations
- Questions to Ask Vendors during RFPs, with NetFoundry’s responses
- Vendor Spotlight on NetFoundry
- Recommendations
“In the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass on Zero Trust Platforms 2026, NetFoundry is rated as Product, Innovation, and Overall Leader.” — KuppingerCole Analysts
This Buyer’s Compass from KuppingerCole Analysts AG was commissioned by NetFoundry.
FAQ
What is the KuppingerCole Buyer’s Compass on Zero Trust Platforms? An analyst report from KuppingerCole Analysts, written by Alexei Balaganski and published in November 2026, to help organizations evaluate and select a Zero Trust platform. It was commissioned by NetFoundry and includes a Vendor Spotlight on NetFoundry.
Is the report free? Yes. Fill in the short form on the download page and you’ll get instant access to the full 21-page PDF.
What is a Zero Trust platform? According to KuppingerCole Analysts: “A Zero Trust platform governs access by identity, context, and policy rather than by network location.”
Which use cases does the Buyer’s Compass cover? Five Top Use Cases: Microsegmentation and Breach Containment; Workload-to-Workload and Site-to-Site Connectivity; AI Agent and Non-Human Access Governance; Secure Hybrid Workforce and Third-Party Access; and Continuous Risk-Adaptive Access and Session Control.
What is the most common starting point for Zero Trust? According to KuppingerCole Analysts: “VPN replacement is still the most common entry point into Zero Trust.”
How does KuppingerCole rate NetFoundry? According to KuppingerCole Analysts: “In the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass on Zero Trust Platforms 2026, NetFoundry is rated as Product, Innovation, and Overall Leader.”
What does KuppingerCole say NetFoundry focuses on? According to KuppingerCole Analysts: “This focus is deliberate: the market for securing human access is crowded with established solutions, while machine-to-machine connectivity is far less well served, and NetFoundry has built its platform around the latter.”
Who should read it? CTOs, CIOs, CISOs, cloud security architects and platform engineers evaluating Zero Trust for workloads, machines and AI agents, as well as human access.