Watchmen Talk - ZenithLive Vienna 2026 #5 With Bill Lapp

Watchmen Talk is a Podcast series about Zero Trust as it is actually deployed, not as it appears on a slide. We sit down with the people building and running these platforms and ask the questions that get skipped in the keynote, where the architecture strains, what happens when it fails, and what practitioners are left holding. CHAPTERS: 0:00 Intro 1:15 Making technology understandable 2:28 Where the Zscaler story meets technical reality 4:57 Cloud bursting and moving the New York data center 7:28 Is zero trust overhyped? 10:17 What deep partner expertise really looks like 12:35 Securing AI and AI for security 17:05 Patch Tuesday is dead: hide your attack surface 19:52 Insider threats and the next segmentation wave 21:12 How fast is Zscaler moving on AI? 23:20 Sovereignty: four levels and the trade-offs 26:50 Closing advice for partners GUEST Bill Lapp, Zscaler   / blapp   HOST Marco Kuijpers   / marco-j-k   Watchmen is the leading Zero Trust, Networking DevOps, and Cloud Security company in the Benelux. Founded and run by Engineers. We currently serve large enterprises and government institutions in realizing their business goals by delivering the most ambitious and critical cybersecurity projects. https://watchmen.io / watchmen