Psychological motivations of attackers, their origins, transmission aspects, "receiver side" mindsets and behaviours, how to change ...
Read More
Zero Trust is one of the most widely talked about cybersecurity trends today. The world of cybersecurity has come to the conclusion that the traditional security models are insufficient. ZT is a strategy to design to prevent data breaches and stop data exfiltration.
Read More
Explore the latest AI tech, predict risks, and ensure innovation meets security in the realm of AI.
Read More
Industry leaders converge to provide authoritative research, tools, education and certification for AI safety and security.
Read More
This Zero Trust strategy, the first of its kind for the Department, provides the necessary guidance for advancing Zero Trust concept development; gap analysis, requirements development, implementation, execution decision-making, and ultimately procurement and deployment of required ZT capabilities and activities which will have meaningful and measurable cybersecurity impacts upon adversaries. Importantly, this document serves only as a strategy, not a solution architecture. Zero Trust Solution Architectures can and should be designed and guided by the details found within this document.
As cybersecurity professionals defend increasingly dispersed and complex enterprise networks from sophisticated cyber threats, embracing a Zero Trust security model and the mindset necessary to deploy and operate a system engineered according to Zero Trust principles can better position them to secure sensitive data, systems, and services.
Zero trust provides a collection of concepts and ideas designed to minimize uncertainty in enforcing accurate, least privilege per-request access decisions in information systems and services in the face of a network viewed as compromised. The goal is to prevent unauthorized access to data and services and make access control enforcement as granular as possible. Zero trust presents a shift from a location-centric model to a more data-centric approach for fine-grained security controls between users, systems, data and assets that change over time; for these reasons. This provides the visibility needed to support the development, implementation, enforcement, and evolution of security policies. More fundamentally, zero trust may require a change in an organization’s philosophy and culture around cybersecurity.
The DoD Cybersecurity Reference Architecture (CS RA) documents the Department’s approach to cybersecurity and is being updated to become data centric and infuse ZT principles. ZT supports the 2018 DoD Cyber Strategy, the 2019 DoD Digital Modernization Strategy, the 2021 Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, and the DoD Chief Information Officer’s (CIO) vision for creating “a more secure, coordinated, seamless, transparent, and costeffective architecture that transforms data into actionable information and ensures dependable mission execution in the face of a persistent cyber threat.” 2 ZT should be used to re-prioritize and integrate existing DoD capabilities and resources, while maintaining availability and minimizing temporal delays in authentication mechanisms, to address the DoD CIO’s vision
In May 2021, in the aftermath of a series of significant cybersecurity incidents, the White House tasked the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) with conducting a multi-phase study on “Enhancing Internet Resilience in 2021 and Beyond.” The tasking directed NSTAC to focus on three key
