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| Welcome to Thunderdome: Pentagon awards zero trust architecture prototype |
| 2022-02-07 |
| [C4ISRNET] The Pentagon’s top IT office issued a nearly $7 million contract to develop its zero trust IT architecture, the Department of Defense announced Tuesday. The cyber threat landscape has shifted in recent years, becoming much more dynamic. As a result, traditional defenses have proven to not be up to the test. The federal government has now shifted to what it calls a zero trust model, which assumes networks are already compromised and validates users, devices and data continuously. The contract, awarded to Booz Allen Hamilton, is for Thunderdome, the Defense Information Systems Agency’s implementation of zero trust. The contract is for a six month prototype effort in which the agency will operationally test how to implement its zero trust architecture involving technologies such as Secure Access Service Edge and Software Defined-Wide Area Networks. “Over the course of the next six months, we plan to produce a working prototype that is scalable across the department,” said Jason Martin, director of DISA’s digital capabilities and security center. |
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