The Air Force’s Zero Trust Strategy Is Out—and Acknowledges Big Hurdles.
July 21, 2024 | By Shaun Waterman
The Department of the Air Force faces significant hurdles in implementing the Pentagon’s latest cybersecurity approach, dubbed Zero Trust, and will fail altogether if it continues to lag on key issues, according to its own strategy document.
The final section of the 27-page strategy, quietly published earlier this month by the department’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) Venice Goodwine, is titled “Risks,” and calls out seven issues which could cause problems in the transition to Zero Trust, or even derail it entirely:
Institutional resistance to the massive cultural shift required
Lagging development of tools for automated data tagging, labeling and management
Nascent state of endpoint cybersecurity for non-IT equipment like IoT devices and weapons systems
A lack of industry open standards leading to proliferation of proprietary solutions and danger of vendor lock-in
The need for a complete refitting of Air Force data centers which the department can’t afford until 2028
Operational blind spots
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-strategy-zero-trust-risks/
