The National Institute of Standards and Technology published its zero trust architecture special publication in August 2020.
The Defense Department issued its zero trust reference architecture in April.
In May 2018, the Federal Chief Information Officer’s Council asked the industry group ACT-IAC to evaluate the technical maturity, availability for procurement and important issues related zero trust.
And then when you add the dozens of vendors who jumped on the zero trust bandwagon and are promoting their assorted capabilities, the entire discussion around what is zero trust has become murky and lacked precision.
This is what the Office of Management and Budget’s draft zero trust strategy, released on Sept. 7, is trying to change by bringing this cybersecurity approach together across government. The strategy is one of several ongoing deadlines detailed in the May executive order from President Joe Biden.
“We didn’t feel like there was a clear agency roadmap for them to follow,” said Chris DeRusha, the federal chief information security officer, in an interview with Federal News Network. “That led us to take the approach that you see in the strategy that we’ve put out for public comment, where we’re taking a phased approach organized around this as draft capability maturity model [from the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency], defining set targets for agencies over a three-year period to achieve a certain first level of maturity across all the zero trust pillars,...
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