"Calyam Leading Efforts to Establish Zero Trust Cybersecurity Approach for Battlefield Communications"
Prasad Calyam, cybersecurity professor and director of the Mizzou Center for Cyber Education, Research, and Infrastructure, is leading the project to establish a new cybersecurity approach that better protects classified information and battlefield communications. His team is exploring the design and implementation of zero trust security in relation to military operations. Due to the conflicting goals of protecting sensitive data while ensuring decision-makers have immediate access, a zero trust architecture cannot work in a tactical warfighting edge because it is assumed to be present or absent in an enterprise setting. Therefore, Calyam and his team propose a model based on a sliding scale of zero trust presence. Permissions and accessibility would depend on various factors, such as whether a device or service plays a role in a mission. This article continues to discuss the project on establishing a zero trust cybersecurity approach for battlefield communications.
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