“But in reality, data leaders they’re working closely with their counterparts in the chief information security officer’s teams to deploy ‘thorough’ data protections, as called for under the White House’s zero trust strategy. And efforts to catalog and tag data will be central to the strategy’s emphasis on implementing stronger identity and access controls.
Kshemendra Paul, chief data officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, said CDO teams and CISO officials are collaborating more closely than they would have five or 10 years ago. Data sharing and safeguarding are now ‘two sides of the same coin,’ he said during an April 21 webinar hosted by AFCEA Bethesda…”
“Paul said the VA is working on an approach to consistently tag metadata across multiple legacy systems and build an ‘Enterprise Data Catalog’ for the large agency. The catalog will help the VA ensure data is more easily discoverable for the right people and applications, while also implementing effective access rules around that data.
‘The Enterprise Data Catalog is such an important aspect of having that understanding in an actionable way, the location of data, what the metadata is associated with it is, to be able to understand and make real the promise of blending access decisions and discovery decisions across the application, the data and the network layer,’ Paul said. ‘It’s at the heart of a zero trust architecture.’…” Read the full article here.
Source: Agency data leaders see strong tie into federal zero trust security push – By Justin Doubleday, April 21, 2022. Federal News Network.
