Cloud Security Alliance best practices require that keys be stored and managed outside of the cloud service provider and the associated encryption operations. Cloud Service Providers therefore offer Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) or Hold Your Own Key (HYOK) services to enable customer control of the keys used to encrypt their data. Customer control of the keys allows for the separation, creation, ownership and control, including revocation, of encr...

Without secure, enterprise-managed identity systems, adversaries can take over user accounts and gain a foothold in an agency to steal data or launch attacks. The Federal Zero Trust Strategy prioritizes defense against sophisticated phishing and directs agencies to consolidate identity systems so that protections and monitoring can be consistently applied. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) plays a critical part of the Government’s strat...