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AFCEA Augusta-Fort Gordon Chapter Course: Beans, Bullets, and Bytes: Realizing the Promise of Zero Trust

Description

Enabling a data centric Army requires a culture shift in how the Army deploys cyber capabilities for its forces. Warfighters must have access to critical data for mission success, and deploying network technology across multiple classification levels, like unclassified NIPRNet, secret SIPRNet, or top secret JWICS, as well as large computing and storage capability to process data is the mission of Cyber and Signal leaders.

However, successfully operating with agility and within a contested cyber domain requires fully embracing the tenants of zero trust to access applications and data that are moved into the cloud from anywhere on the globe. Zero trust recognizes the shortcomings of network security and instead builds security into the connection through policy decision making and policy enforcement. The policy determines whether a user at an endpoint has the appropriate access permissions, to include security classification of the user, to login to a military application to view or manipulate data.

Within zero trust, a secure and protected connection between each end is completely independent of the underlying network infrastructure. Fully embracing zero trust, and its focus on securing data, not networks for a data centric Army clears the way to think of a network as just a means of transport, reversing three decades of designing, developing, implementing, and operating secure networks at multiple classification levels.

The culture shift from network-centricity to data-centricity enables an agile Army to fully integrate ubiquitous public network access with cloud services, and thanks to zero trust, that data is secured for mission success.

Key Points:

• Why so much buzz around zero trust? Is it real or a buzz word?
• How does the Army outpace the adversary in a contested cyber domain?
• The push to remote work taught industry that it is possible to securely access the cloud via the public internet to access data. What should the Army take away from that?
• How does zero trust enable Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) and the Army’s Unified Network Optimization (UNO)?

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  Continuing Education
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  Greater Augusta Chapter Courses

Handouts

• Beans, Bullets, and Bytes: Realizing the Promise of Zero Trust