DOD officials tease 'new and different' zero-trust strategy set to arrive this month

By Briana Reilly / September 8, 2022 at 4:16 PM
Top Defense Department officials say their forthcoming zero-trust strategy will represent a "new and different" approach that comes as the Pentagon works to implement a "targeted" enterprise-wide security framework within the next five years. That zero-trust strategy, which builds off of DOD’s initial transition efforts through the previously released reference architecture , aims to go beyond the seven pillars laid out in that earlier framework through the creation of tiers defined by a required capability set. Specifically, Pentagon cyber chief...

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