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House Appropriators Encourage Pentagon to Move to ‘Zero Trust’ Cybersecurity Architecture

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, July 16th, 2020

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House Appropriators Encourage Pentagon to Move to ‘Zero Trust’ Cybersecurity Architecture

The House Appropriations Committee is encouraging the Pentagon to move toward a cybersecurity Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) model being tested at U.S. Air Force's Air Combat Command (ACC). "The committee encourages the Secretary of Defense to implement a Zero Trust Architecture to increase its cybersecurity posture and enhance the department’s ability to protect its systems and data," according to report language on the committee's version of the fiscal year 2021 defense spending bill. ZTA assumes networks are compromised and instead…

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