“The Department of Veteran Affairs is accelerating its zero trust journey, as the White House urges federal agencies to secure IT infrastructures and improve cybersecurity.”
“Agencies are all grappling with how to implement various security strategies as a result of Biden’s May Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, key elements of which include zero trust. Over the past year, VA has already been developing a strategy to leverage and integrate zero trust…”
“The department is looking at how it can leverage zero trust to improve the ways it protects critical data in the face of evolving threats.”
“’The current security model in which we use for zero trust is no longer working in this world of evolving threats,’ [Royce Allen, director of enterprise security architecture at VA] said. ‘As we continue to bring in new technology and new advancements, our telehealth services are critical, and protecting [health] information is also critical.'”
“Allen outlined the agency’s two priorities as it works to integrate zero trust: protecting health services to help patients and improving supply chain to minimize exploits. VA is launching security awareness programs to provide its workforce with basic protocols and technologies to continue to improve security…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA Outlines Importance of Zero Trust as Threat Landscape Evolves – By Sarah Sybert, August 10, 2021. GovernmentCIO.
