Zero Networks Accelerates Enterprise Growth as AI-Speed Attacks Reshape Segmentation Buying

Leading Zero Trust company earns top analyst recognition and adds marquee global customers

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zero Networks, the leading provider of Zero Trust security solutions, today announced continued business momentum driven by growing enterprise demand for cybersecurity architectures that stop attackers from laterally moving inside corporate networks in the era of AI. The company enters the second half of 2026 with significant customer expansion, recognition from leading industry analysts, and continued support from prominent cybersecurity investors. That momentum is reflected in the company’s strong year-over-year growth and expanding enterprise footprint, including:

• Revenue grew 100% year-over-year
• Net dollar retention exceeded 120%

Zero Networks' growth reflects a broader shift in enterprise cybersecurity as organizations move beyond just detecting attacks to preventing them from spreading within networks. According to the company's 2026 Lateral Movement Exposure Report, 80% of enterprise servers are reachable from anywhere inside the network, leaving organizations vulnerable to ransomware, operational disruption, and AI-accelerated lateral movement. As a result, enterprises across critical infrastructure, transportation, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, and other industries are adopting identity-driven microsegmentation to reduce internal attack paths, limit blast radius, and protect uptime.

Growing Enterprise Validation

The company continues to expand its footprint among the world's largest enterprises, including organizations operating some of the most critical infrastructure in transportation, manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and financial services.

• Enterprise customer count grew 230% year-over-year
• Protects 15 of the Fortune 500
• Zero Networks has maintained 99% retention across its customer base.

“The security model enterprises relied on for decades simply isn’t designed for today’s AI-driven attack landscape,” said Benny Lakunishok, CEO and Co-Founder of Zero Networks. “We’re seeing an evolution from Microsegmentation 2.0, built for legacy segmentation projects, to Microsegmentation 3.0, built for the speed and scale of the AI era. Organizations can’t simply out-patch or out-detect attackers anymore. They have to out-architect them with segmentation that is faster to deploy, easier to operate and capable of containing lateral movement before compromise becomes business disruption.”

Built for Enterprise Deployment

Zero Networks' approach is designed to make microsegmentation practical to deploy and operate at enterprise scale. Across its customer base, the platform delivers a 45-day median time to a segmented asset, with 97% of policies generated by the platform. Two years into deployment, the median environment adds just five rules per year, demonstrating the platform's ability to reduce the ongoing operational burden traditionally associated with segmentation.The platform also enables organizations to tightly control lateral movement with minimal disruption.

Preparing Enterprises for AI-Speed Attacks

Zero Networks is also expanding its approach for a world where AI dramatically compresses attack timelines. The company recently introduced Least Agency, which applies least-privilege principles to AI agents and autonomous systems, limiting unnecessary access and network pathways.

Zero Networks also introduced Mythos Readiness, an initiative that helps organizations identify and eliminate lateral movement paths before AI-accelerated attacks can exploit them. Together, these efforts help enterprises contain compromise by design rather than relying on security teams to respond faster than attackers can move.

Industry Recognition

The company’s momentum follows continued recognition from leading industry analysts for its approach to Zero Trust security and microsegmentation. Recent recognition includes:

• KuppingerCole named Zero Networks an overall leader in its Leadership Compass on Zero Trust Platforms, recognizing the company’s strength in segmentation.
• Zero Networks was recognized as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Microsegmentation Solutions, Q3 2026. The report states, “Customers highlight Zero Networks’ speed of deployment, ease of operation, responsiveness to feature requests, and the caliber of technical support...”

About Zero Networks

Zero Networks helps organizations prevent attacks, limit blast radius, and maintain business continuity, even when attackers get inside. Through identity-driven microsegmentation, Zero verifies every connection and tightly controls lateral movement across users, workloads, and AI agents. As AI creates new identities and machine-speed risk, Zero automatically discovers and governs access with adaptive least-privilege controls. The result is simpler, more resilient security that reduces cost and complexity while protecting uptime, revenue, and compliance. Learn more at zeronetworks.com.