White House instructs government agencies to beef up cybersecurity, adopt ‘zero trust,’ in new memo

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The White House released a new cybersecurity strategy Wednesday aimed at reducing the risk of cyberattacks against government infrastructure.

The strategy outlines the administration’s vision for moving government agencies towards a “zero trust” architecture — a cybersecurity model where users and devices are only given permissions to access network resources necessary for the task at hand, and are authenticated on a case-by-case basis.

The key document was published as a memorandum from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the administration’s policy arm, and addressed to the heads of all executive departments and agencies.

According to the memorandum, shifting towards a zero trust architecture will require the implementation of...

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source https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/26/22902630/white-house-instructs-agencies-cybersecurity-strategy-memo-cisa

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