Government learns that authenticators are key part of modernization
Now that federal agencies have shifted to mass telework and sorted through many of the related hardware and software needs, they’re able to take a closer look all the pieces necessary to implement zero-trust security architecture, a cybersecurity expert says. In particular, agencies have greatly embraced the use of different kinds of authenticators to help identify users and control their network access, said Brian Rosensteel, Cybersecurity Architect at Duo Security, during an SNG Live virtual discussion panel hosted by Scoop News Group on Oct. 20. Federal IT leaders are seeing that for telework, old forms of proving identity don’t translate, and they’re looking for other solutions. “That’s where we’ve seen zero trust really starting to take place,” he said. The zero-trust model assumes that the network is penetrable, so it forces users to verify themselves for each set of data or applications they want to access once they’re on the […]
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