Trust Player Zero

Trust Player Zero (TPZ) is a very early-stage startup building an identity and access risk platform. Its current product connects to Microsoft Entra in read-only mode and brings together supported identity evidence, such as users, directory roles, MFA registration, sign-ins, Conditional Access policies and Identity Protection risk signals, so a small security team can review what deserves attention. Its standard audit looks for dormant and never-signed-in accounts, privileged users, privileged users with MFA registration gaps, stale guest accounts and identity risk signals.

The company’s differentiator is the workflow it is trying to prove rather than the detection. Its Design Partner Beta, a free 12-week program for up to five Microsoft Entra customers, is designed to validate one customer-authorized action, disabling an account, followed by a read-back of the resulting state from Entra, retained evidence of what happened and governed re-enablement. The company says the customer stays responsible for approving every action.

TPZ is aimed first at Microsoft-heavy financial services and fintech organizations where one person or a small team carries broad cybersecurity responsibility. Its stated longer-term direction is a control plane for governing security actions across human, software and AI-agent identities; the company labels that as future direction, not current capability. It was founded by Erin Christ (CEO), Ron Hurry (Chief Security Architect) and Jeremy Solomon (Chief Product Officer).