Harnessing Automation to Reach Zero Trust Goals

All federal agencies are working to meet the Office of Management and Budget mandate to establish a zero trust architecture for their systems – a key element in improving cybersecurity across agencies.

The National Security Agency (NSA) has laid out the seven pillars of Zero Trust: User, Device, Network & Environment, Application & Workload, Data, Automation & Orchestration, and Visibility & Analytics. In July the agency released its final report on the automation and orchestration pillar, stating that “organizations should employ automation and orchestration methods to address repetitive, labor intensive, and predictable tasks for critical functions and access control.”