Zero trust architecture
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (ED): Securing student and borrower data
Challenge: An increasingly hostile cyber threat environment makes it crucial for the Department of Education to update its security approach.
Approach: With TMF support, ED is working to:
- Stand up an enterprise-wide program management office dedicated to zero trust
- Enable a zero trust program that includes strategy, architecture, design, and an implementation roadmap
- Establish a catalog of services with secure access service edge and security orchestration, automation, and response technologies
- Adopt an advanced architecture across cloud-computing environments
- Investment start: 09/2021
- Project status: Inactive
- Transfer status: 100%
- Repayment status: 28%
- Schedule delay: No
- Cost overruns: No
- ARP funding: Yes
- Commercial product: No
- Total TMF investment amount: $20,000,000
- TMF spend to date (obligated): $19,587,714