U.S. federal agency executives share their strategies for prioritizing steps to implement zero trust and establish comprehensive security protections.

CISO Shane Barney shares his insights on the importance for agencies to invest early in security automation as a building block for zero trust.

David McKeown on implementing zero trust throughout the whole department by the end of FY27, hopes to share robust plan with the entire federal government.

Paul Blahusch on why implementing zero trust principles across the department is going to be an architectural change.

Tony Plater says cyber readiness coupled with a continued zero trust journey better protects data and information wherever it resides.

National Science Foundation Chief Enterprise Architect Chezian Sivagnanam on the agency’s two-pronged approach to building a zero-trust architecture.

Steven Hernandez discusses investment strategies for identity, policy enforcement, automation and SASE to secure the agency’s extended network infrastructure.