
Following recently disclosed cyber breaches of a number of federal government and private sector networks, the Defense Department is accelerating its adoption of a zero trust (ZT) framework across the department’s information network, the DODIN, defense officials told a Senate panel on Wednesday. The DoD was already moving toward a ZT framework but the “increasing sophistication, determination, and resourcefulness of our adversaries in cyberspace” as evidenced by the compromises of software supplied by Microsoft [MSFT] and SolarWinds [SWI] “highlight the…