CyberThreats 2025 Day One: Beyond Zero Trust - Building Federal Cyber Resilience

The federal government has invested almost four years to move all its systems and networks to a least permissive access architecture, based on the concept of “never trust, always verify.” This has significantly improved cybersecurity, but it’s a moving target – bad actors, whether cyber criminals or hostile nation-states, keep evolving their tools and tactics, seeking new vectors they can penetrate.

To constantly improve an agency’s risk profile, security professionals must pay attention to trends both in cyber attacks and in new defensive measures. For instance, hackers are using AI to help their social engineering efforts, ferreting out and stealing legitimate login credentials.