When it comes to zero trust, there’s “a lot of buzz” on things like secure facilities and networks, but not as much emphasis on “how do we watch and make sure it’s staying that way," one expert said.
Set to start this spring, the test is not a requirement for the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract, but an “independent” experiment by the Pentagon CIO’s Zero Trust office, said director Randy Resnick.
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“Naysayers will argue that the strategy is five years or more too late, and although they might be correct, the bigger takeaway is that the DoD has found religion on cybersecurity and they are addressing it architecturally, aiming for a lasting and measurable effect,” Eric Noonan, CEO of CyberSheath and former BAE Systems CISO, told Breaking Defense.
The Federal government is making a big push toward zero trust security architectures, but with an abundance of guidance on what makes a zero trust architecture successful, the looming question for many Federal agencies is ‘where do we start?’ Randy Resnick, senior advisor for the Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office at the Department of Defense (DoD), believes the first step is planning.