The single biggest reduction in proposed year-over-year cyber funding appears to be in overseas "hunt-forward" cyber operations, with a $284.4 million cut to $147.2 million in 2022 versus a requested $431.6 million last year.
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Brad D. Williams on May 03, 2021 at 4:38 PM
WASHINGTON: Once considered by many to be merely a cyber buzzword, zero-trust security models are all the rage today. Ever since the NSA urged the defense sector to adopt zero trust, it’s been a topic top of mind for security pros, from keynotes to happy hours.
Zero trust, as a concept, existed even before the term, which is a decade old now. But with remote workforces and evolving IT environments, threat actors, and cyberattacks, many believe zero trust’s time has finally come.
“I think [zero-trust security] was slowly building over years,” NIST Computer Scientist Scott Rose told me in a recent interview.