Adoption of Zero-Trust Architecture In Government Agencies

Public servants access secure databases and applications across various platforms and networks. To successfully adopt a zero trust architecture (ZTA), IT teams must provide the right solutions and training to ensure that every employee in the organization is securely accessing sensitive data. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has created standards and objectives for agencies to achieve ZTA by 2024. The five pillars of ZTA, released by the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA), lay out the base requirements for solutions that address how employees and contractors protect and access each pillar: Identity, Devices, Networks, Applications and Workloads and Data.