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Hanscom AFB and Air Combat Command Working to Establish Zero Trust Across U.S. Air Force

Hanscom AFB and Air Combat Command Working to Establish Zero Trust Across U.S. Air Force
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III and Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testify on the Defense Department budget for fiscal year 2022 before the Senate Appropriations Committee on June 17. Austin recently approved the DoD JADC2 strategy, which is to be enabled by a zero trust architecture (Pentagon Photo)

Personnel from the AFNet sustainment and operations branch at Hanscom AFB, Mass. and Air Combat Command's (ACC) directorate of cyberspace and information dominance are teaming to develop "a modern software-based perimeter"--a Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA)--to protect cyber applications from intrusion and interference across the U.S. Air Force, the service said. ZTA assumes networks are compromised and instead focuses on the defense of applications’ data. Zero trust networks "grant access for individual requests only after establishing confidence in both the user…

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