Hanscom AFB team supports ‘revolutionary’ zero trust effort
by Air Force News Agency
June 29, 2021
in Air Force News
HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE: Personnel from the AFNet Sustainment and Operations Branch at Hanscom Air Force Base are partnering with the Air Combat Command Directorate of Cyberspace and Information Dominance to develop a modern software-based perimeter that will deliver zero trust capabilities to applications across the Air Force.
Defined by the Air Force as a “data or application access strategy that assumes all resource requests originate from an untrusted source,” zero trust networks grant access for individual requests only after establishing confidence in both the user and the device through identity verification and connection context attributes.
“The concept of zero trust has been around for many years, but recent cyberattacks and the heightened cyber threat landscape have elevated the need to implement zero trust architectures,” said Raju Ranjan, an AFNet Sustainment and Operations Branch engineer. “Last year’s National Institute of Standards and Technology special publication and the Department of Defense’s reference architecture helped us better understand this strategy, and it’s now a DOD mandate for all agencies to use a zero trust architecture model.”
https://www.defencetalk.com/hanscom-afb-team-supports-revolutionary-zero-trust-effort-77067/
