Cloud Adoption Key to Zero-Trust Security Growth, Feds Say

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Boosting the use of cloud services may be the answer to expanding implementation of zero-trust models of cybersecurity across Federal agencies and departments, Education Department CISO Steven Hernandez said at an ACT-IAC meeting today.

The zero-trust model takes an architectural approach to cybersecurity by providing a consistent security strategy of users accessing data that resides anywhere, and creates a default standard of maintaining strict control access and never trusting any individual, even those within the network’s perimeter.

Although the benefits of zero trust are evident – better security, reduced breach impact, improved compliance and visibility, and potentially lower costs – Hernandez said that the uneven and diverse state of IT “maturity” across the government makes it difficult to create a zero-trust cybersecurity foundation on a Federal-wide level.

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