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…
