Risky Business · Friday, August 14, 2026
Adam Ponting, CEO of Knockknock, discusses how his company's product offers a practical solution for network security by integrating SSO with network controls. He contrasts this with the perceived failure of "zero trust orthodoxy" in delivering real-world applicable architectures.
“The idea behind Knockknock is it glues SSO to network controls, right? So you've got Okta, you've got a bunch of Palo Alto Networks or Fortinet or, you know, Cisco firewalls.”
“Whereas Knockknock is kind of tailored for the real world, which is its very simple and it it does something very simple and it's very simple to roll out.”
“So we're gonna explore this whole concept of, like, how zero trust is best thought of as a guiding principle and not as an architecture.”