Wednesday, September 09, 2020: 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM
Speaker(s)
Description
The cybersecurity landscape has evolved to highlight the criticality of evolving beyond perimeter-based security. Zero Trust is a cybersecurity strategy and framework that embeds security throughout the architecture for stopping data breaches. Zero-trust architectures can help organizations better security their networks by giving them more control over all of the interactions between users, data, and systems across their enterprise. This data centric security model eliminates the idea of trusted or untrusted networks, devices, personas, or processes; and shifts to multi-attribute based confidence levels that enable authentication and authorization policies under the concept of least privileged access. Zero Trust requires a paradigm shift, from a legacy defense in depth security model that is hierarchical and transport focused, to a data centric model optimized for the enterprise. Security strategies must be designed around a zero trust approach—in other words, one that trusts nothing outside or inside an organization. On this panel, leaders in government and industry identity speak to how the U.S. government can adopt and implement digital identity best practices in a Zero Trust environment.