It has been more than two years since President Biden released his Executive Order (EO) on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. Paramount to this EO was the directive for federal agencies to move towards adopting and implementing zero trust cybersecurity architectures.…
Microsoft’s Federal Security CTO on the impact of OMB’s zero trust strategy
Last January, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released M-22-09, a memorandum that set forth the federal government strategy on zero trust adoption, in an effort to reinforce the security and protection of government agencies’ critical systems, networks, and…
Bolstering Multi-Cloud Security with Identity Management
As organizations adapt to hybrid work and more and more cloud services are deployed, new service entities that collaborate and exchange data without human interaction, such as virtual machines and containers, are proliferating. The growth of these service accounts and…
Four added benefits of identity and access management
The global, dynamic, and interconnected nature of IT enterprises today – and a proliferation of security threats – require protections that limit the damage attackers can do once they’re inside the agency firewall. Knowing that cybersecurity threats are only increasing…
