The Biden Administration is pushing federal agencies to adopt a zero-trust security architecture to protect themselves and their data from “increasingly sophisticated and persistent threat campaigns,” according to a new strategy issued this week by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

According to the White House order, agencies have until the end of the government’s fiscal year 2024 to reach the target goals laid out in the strategy and based on a zero-trust model developed by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).


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