Pentagon zero-trust office aims to start data tagging, labeling in ′24
By Molly Weisner
Monday, Jul 8, 2024
Data tagging and labeling assists with the useability, discoverability and analysis of data. (Getty Images)
The Pentagon’s zero-trust office is on a mission to develop and test a plan for organizing its reams of data by the end of the year.
At the TechNet Cyber conference presented by the Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association International in Baltimore last month, Randy Resnick, director of the Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office, said tagging and labeling, the practice of assigning metadata and identifiers to pieces of data, has been a long-term challenge for the department.
“They’ve been apparently working on this for 12 or more years —15 years — and I think it’s time enough to do something,” he said.
By way of an update on these efforts, Resnick said he approved three pilot programs in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Defense Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Office and the Department of Homeland Security to develop a plan that would allow for all the necessary conversions and interpretations to process any data tagging and labeling standard in an understandable,repeatable way.
https://www.defensenews.com/cyber/2024/07/08/pentagon-zero-trust-office-aims-to-start-data-tagging-labeling-in-24/
