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US Federal Zero Trust Data Security Guide
US Federal Zero Trust Data Security Guide

US Federal Zero Trust Data Security Guide

Release Date: 10/30/2024
Organization: US CIO Council
Content Type: Guidance
Solution Provider Neutrality: Neutral
Guidance from the cross-functional US Zero Trust (ZT) Data Security Working Group.

The cyber risk landscape is continuously evolving and our adversaries are evolving along with it. The United States is facing unprecedented threats as malicious actors advance their tactics and unlock new ways to attack our systems, including using emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), to launch increasingly sophisticated cyber campaigns. 

To counter these threats, agencies are making US Federal systems more defensible by employing ZT principles — which means trust is never implicitly granted and must be continually validated. 

ZT moves away from the traditional approach of protecting the network perimeter — a “castle and moat” model as seen in Figure 1 — to instead assume that a network may be compromised at any time, anywhere, and by anyone. Through the ZT lens, we focus on securing the data itself, rather than the perimeter protecting it. This concept is known as “ZT data security.”

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