Tracking Progress in Cybersecurity

In this episode, host Raghu Nandakumara sits down with Sean Connelly, Former Director of CISA’s Zero Trust Initiative, to discuss the evolution of network architectures; why incidents over the past 5 years have catalyzed a greater federal focus on cyber resilience, and specifically Zero Trust; and how CISA is thinking about protecting data in new ways.

Timestamps: 

(04:39) How the nature of the perimeter has changed 

(12:00) The shift towards being critical-asset focused and how it accelerated cloud adoption

(15:36) The process behind drafting recent regulation and EO 14028

(36:56) Are agencies making the expected improvements? 

(41:48) The key challenges moving forward 

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Links

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