Achieving Zero Trust Zero Fail Defense Grade Security

While the term “zero trust" is overused in security product marketing, Zero Trust is very important to the future of our nation's cybersecurity. The Department of Defense (DoD) released its own Zero Trust architecture guidance and there are many additional relevant models available to federal customers.

Last May, President Biden issued an Executive Order (EO) which required agencies to provide updates on their plans to implement Zero Trust Architecture within 60 days of issuance of the EO. While the EO does not provide a great amount of detail regarding the components that should be included in a Zero Trust architecture, it does specify that agencies should “incorporate, as appropriate, migration steps that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)…has outlined in standards and guidance.” These frameworks provide a good start upon which agencies can and should build, but agencies implementing Zero Trust must also take an outcome based approach rather than a compliance approach to Zero Trust that focuses on outcomes.

This webinar will discuss what agencies must focus on to ensure their Zero Trust implementation goes beyond detection and achieves prevention and the key components to consider your Zero Trust implementation for an outcome based Zero Trust approach. Ultimately, the end goal is not about compliance, but about the complete architecture coming together. Many technologies can offer important pieces toward Zero Trust, rather inter-dependency of behaviors across users, devices, applications and data matter.