Taking Zero Trust to the Next Level of Innovation

Cyber threats to federal agencies continue to evolve, requiring equal agility in defending against them. To address the scope of the risk, the White House released Executive Order (EO) 14028 on improving the nation’s cybersecurity in May 2021. It outlined security best practices, including how the federal government must advance toward a zero trust architecture to keep pace with today’s dynamic and increasingly complex cyber threat environment, and requires agencies to deploy zero trust architectures by 2024.

Advancing zero trust strategies is the fastest way to improve an agency’s cyber resiliency and reduce the risk of rising attacks from turning into disasters. Zero trust represents a dramatic shift in how federal agencies will secure infrastructure, networks and data, from “verify once at the perimeter” to “verify always” – every user, device, application and transaction. But as the concept of and familiarity with zero trust evolves, misconceptions about this cybersecurity framework remain. Also, the industry continues to innovate – and so do adversaries; zero trust must evolve to keep pace. It is not a “fix-and-forget” project, but a long-term commitment to zero trust principles.

Join us as thought leaders from government and industry discuss their recent experiences in establishing zero trust architectures in agencies and the myths and misunderstandings that must be dispelled.