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