Apr 4, 2022
Guest:
- Sharon Goldberg, CEO and cofounder of BastionZero and a professor at Boston University
Topics:
- What is your favorite definition of zero trust?
- You had posted a blog analyzing the whitehouse ZT a memo on the federal government’s transition to “zero trust”, what caught your eye about the Zero Trust memo and why did you decide to write about it?
- What’s behind the federal government’s recommendations to deprecate VPNs and recommend users “authenticate to applications, not networks”?
- What do these recommendations mean for cloud security, today and in the future?
- What do you think would be the hardest things to implement in real US Federal IT environments?
- Are there other recommendations in the memo to think about as organizations design zero trust strategies for their infrastructure?
- What are some of the challenges
of implementing zero trust in general?
Resources:
- "Zero Trust: Fast Forward from 2010 to 2021" (ep8)
- “Moving the U.S. Government Toward Zero Trust Cybersecurity Principles”
- “I read the federal government’s Zero-Trust Memo so you don’t have to”
- “F12 isn’t hacking: Missouri governor threatens to prosecute local journalist for finding exposed state data”