Advancing zero trust

Challenge: GSA must improve its cybersecurity capabilities to continually verify the security of users, devices, applications, and data by maturing its zero trust architecture. This will also help achieve broad-based visibility across the GSA ecosystem, with enhanced automation to enable real-time response to threats.

Approach: With TMF support, GSA is focused on three areas:

• Users and devices: modernize directory designs to better support GSA’s multi-domain hybrid cloud architectures and develop a modern enterprise authentication solution
• Networks: leverage a secure access service edge solution and enhance the security of its public buildings’ security network
• Security operations: adopt increased machine learning and artificial intelligence-driven algorithms that connect diverse data sources and highlight threats, provide security oversight for cyber supply chain risk management, and enhance core security operations centers to include government-wide public-facing digital services