Cyber Risk Management for Government Clouds: Strategies to Safeguard Agency Missions

With the new adoption of Zero Trust mandated by the White House in Executive Order 14028 it has resulted in an accelerated integration of cloud service across the federal government. With the government and defense agencies migrating to the cloud it creates many benefits but also exposes them to increase cybersecurity risks. In this white paper, it outlines the critical areas of concern within the federal government cybersecurity to proposing strategies mitigating those risks.