All ye who are weary of gratuitous blathering about zero trust: turn thy attention this way! Zero trust represents a new mindset for protecting information and people, codified in a set of principles. All of which are obvious and conventional, yet mostly aspirational. But hark! Dreams are now reality, made manifest in products you can buy today: security service edge and secure access service edge. Come, let us together explore the principles, their expressions in SSE and SASE, and how to capture their reality in your next SSE or SASE project.