As the Air Force forges ahead in its digital transformation journey, Secretary Frank Kendall’s seven Operational Imperatives continue to guide the service’s long-term objectives, capabilities and programs, especially in light of the intensifying peer and near-peer competition. Software, zero trust, cloud, long-range fires and JADC2 remain at the forefront of the Air Force’s focus areas as the service embraces new technologies...

As governments and educational institutions strive to meet public demands for access to data-driven services, they face the critical challenge of securing sensitive data against cyber threats. To address this challenge, government and educational institutions need to adopt a modern security approach like Zero Trust. Join us in Dallas to hear from industry experts and peers from Okta, Zscaler, CrowdStrike, Rubrik and AWS. You'll learn how to ba...

The modernization of national defense is in a period of rapid advancement that binds partners and coalitions together through data like never before. The path forward relies on what the Department of Defense calls Mission Partner Environments. MPEs allow the U.S. military to communicate, collaborate, and share sensitive or classified information securely and in real-time. In this episode of GovExec TV, DoD and industry leaders discuss how the...

As they contend with growing security challenges and attack vectors increasing in size and scale, today’s cybersecurity leaders are often victims of malicious infiltration they may not even know about. Though implementing Zero Trust solutions across their systems can often bolster defenses, questions remain on everything from improving visibility across these workloads to making more informed decisions across a broader cybersecurity ecos...

After decades of delay, cybersecurity has become a defining issue for the United States. In response, when the White House laid out its zero trust requirements in January 2022, it set an ambitious goal – that all agencies have their zero trust infrastructure in place before October 1, 2024. This is because of the reality of the digital age: a persistent threat environment is the norm in the IT world, and agencies have to assume they...

Proper supply chain management and national security have never been more interconnected. As geopolitical tensions bring cyber threats to the fore, the public and private sector must collaborate to ensure each link of the supply chain is secure. And everyone in the organization, from developers to senior leadership, must prioritize risk management across the entire threat landscape. Because cybersecurity risks can arise at any point in the lif...

With its new National Cybersecurity Strategy, the Biden administration is doubling down on moving the Federal government to a zero trust security architecture, following last year’s mandate to set specific zero trust goals by the end of fiscal year 2024. Looking ahead, the strategy spells out that over the long term the government will “defend the Federal enterprise and modernize Federal systems in accordance with zero trust princi...

In this exclusive webinar edition of Ask the CIO, host Jason Miller and his guest, Kurt DelBene, assistant secretary for information and technology and chief information officer with the Department of Veterans Affairs will dive into zero trust and the future of training and automation at the VA. In addition, Tom Roeh, director of systems engineering at ExtraHop will provide an industry perspective. Learning Objectives: Zero trust overview at t...

In this webinar, we will hear from a powerhouse panel of cyber experts discussing Zero trust mandates and their impacts to the public sector, impacts and recommendations from the second version of the Zero Trust Maturity Model, what microsegmentation is, and how agencies are seeking to adopt Zero Trust Access and microsegmentation. Help improve your agency's cyber resilience and join this webinar!

Join Okta in Washington, DC on June 13th to hear from government officials and Okta product leaders as they share how Identity accelerates Zero Trust Architecture, streamlines secure user experiences, and helps prevent and mitigate fraud.