To put it more succinctly, in the zero-trust mindset it isn't ever _your_ network. It's a network you happen to be connected to. Your only trust the network at

To put it more succinctly, in the zero-trust mindset it isn't ever _your_ network. It's a network you happen to be connected to. Your only trust the network at the physical layer that it won't destroy your hardware. Beyond that you don't trust anything you receive over the network that you can't independently verify.