Nearly two months after President Joe Biden signed his cybersecurity executive order setting up multiple sprints for agencies to harden their security posture, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency says a long-term vision for zero trust adoption across agencies is coming into focus.
Matt Hartman, CISA’s deputy executive assistant director for cybersecurity, said the cyber executive order focuses on short-term sprints, but will result in strategies and roadmaps that will build momentum on cyber policy through the rest of the Biden administration.
For example, he said the entire federal government should be able to make “meaningful progress” on implementing zero trust within the next three years.
“The administration fully recognizes that many of the core issues that are being addressed will only be solved through years — literally years of focus and continued investment. That’s my sense, that as we hit the end of the 90-day EO timeline, we will have many enduring plans with additional milestones that the White House, OMB, CISA and others will continue driving for the next…
