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Zero-Trust Architecture for Retail Systems

Extending zero-trust principles across commerce, POS and supply-chain systems.

Directionally important as agentic traffic grows, but most retailers are still working through foundational identity and segmentation work before a genuine zero-trust architecture is realistic.

Zero-Trust for AI Workloads across other industries

Extending least-privilege and continuous verification to model endpoints and agent tool calls.

Security

From the Retail & Consumer Emerging Technology & Innovation Radar, Edition 2026.1, published 2026-10-01.

An independent, industry-agnostic radar curated by Shailesh Kumar.