A roadmap for Zero Trust

As state and local governments adapt to distributed workforces and cloud-delivered digital services, traditional approaches to secure users, systems and data are becoming outdated. IT leaders must consider how Zero Trust can strengthen protection for government systems and understand its impacts on organizational culture and existing tools and practices.

"Zero Trust involves a recalibration of thinking to a strategic-minded, risk-based approach," says Deborah Snyder, senior fellow for the Center for Digital Government (CDG) and former chief information security officer (CISO) for New York State. "It's an opportunity to lean forward and ask if what you're planning will serve your organization in the future."

Learn more about Zero Trust architecture, a security model that assumes no user or device should automatically be trusted.