Navy’s Tony Plater highlights zero trust and AI defense strategies

Dept. of Navy CISO Tony Plater discussed the diverse and complex challenges faced in defending against cyber threats across the Navy’s enterprise and extended software supply chain, especially post-COVID with the expansion of remote workers and a variety of system environments. He emphasized the importance of a zero-trust security philosophy, continuous adversarial assessment testing, and defending against the misuse of AI by adversaries. Plater also outlines the Navy’s efforts in meeting the White House’s executive order on zero trust security, highlighting progress in cloud platforms, identity systems, and the goal to fully implement zero trust principles by 2027 despite challenges in low bandwidth environment.