"The DOD Aims for Full Zero Trust Deployment by 2027"

According to the Department of Defense (DOD) CIO John Sherman, the Pentagon plans to implement a zero trust architecture across its entire enterprise by 2027. The goal is to have zero trust deployed across most of the DOD's enterprise systems. Sherman stated that while that is an ambitious goal for those familiar with zero trust, the adversary capability forces them to move at that rate. Remote work and connected devices are common in today's world. A company's technology stack is constantly being supplemented with new tools and applications. Therefore, enterprises can no longer define a perimeter to protect themselves, no matter how hard they try. Security must now be validated for each app, user, software, and device. All requests are assumed to be unauthorized until proven otherwise, with zero trust. Instead of relying on a single technology, zero trust employs various strategies, including multi-factor authentication (MFA), micro-segmentation, and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven contextual analytics. Organizations that adopt the zero trust strategy incur 20.5 percent lower costs for a data breach than those that do not. Companies that use zero trust save nearly $1 million in average breach costs compared to those without it. This article continues to discuss the Pentagon's plans to implement a zero trust architecture across its entire enterprise by 2027. 

Security Intelligence reports "The DOD Aims for Full Zero Trust Deployment by 2027"