The seismic shift to distributed workforces has dissolved the Defense Department’s traditional network perimeter and put a focus on a new critical aspect of cybersecurity: identity management. With users and devices now accessing critical information, systems, and applications from anywhere, the mindset must be to never trust and always verify. In this new environment, a zero trust approach can help agencies minimize their attack surface...

President Biden’s Executive Order (EO) has accelerated the crucial need to improve U.S. cybersecurity and move towards Zero Trust. When building a true Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA), it’s critical for agencies to understand that security solutions need to work together to provide the best line of defense. Almost every attack today requires a stolen identity or privilege to execute and initially compromise an environment or to move...

Agency modernization, expanding cloud deployments, and distributed workforces create new planes of privilege for adversaries to exploit. When designing the future state of The Defense Department's complex enterprise network, a least-privilege approach is critical to keep pace with adversaries and lower your attack surface. With users and devices now accessing critical information, systems, and applications from anywhere, the mindset must be to...

The increased risk of cyber-attacks targeting Operational Technology (OT) systems and third-party remote access has skyrocketed in our new hybrid world. Agencies working in converged IT/OT industrial environments must achieve complete visibility, security, and control of operations, and they must understand what third-party vendors (suppliers/contractors) and internal privileged users (operators/admins/remote workers) are doing with their acce...

In our rapidly changing digital world, agencies must evolve security strategies. A goal of Zero Trust is to create a security and network architecture that is dynamic, adaptable, and protected. The Executive Order on Cybersecurity has moved the term "Zero Trust" from a buzzword to a much-needed baseline for action planning around how we secure agency data and systems. Agencies must leverage Zero Trust principles to never trust, always verify,...

The Office of Management and Budget issued its guidance in January on meeting the requirements for agency networks to implement a Zero Trust architecture strategy. The mandate seeks to defend against sophisticated penetrations by adversaries, emphasizing identity management and access controls are key components of the strategies. Taken together, identity and access controls mean that privileged access management (PAM) is essential. Federal ag...

Identity governance solutions help IT teams answer “who has access to what?” The integrated BeyondTrust and SailPoint solution allows organizations to answer “is that access appropriate for privileged users?” and “is that privileged access being used appropriately?” Attendees joined BeyondTrust for a live product demo to understand how BeyondTrust and SailPoint integrated to: Automate Access: Increase produc...

Thousands of organizations worldwide rely on ServiceNow solutions for service management across IT, human resources, facilities, field service, and other disciplines. Implementing BeyondTrust and ServiceNow solutions together provide a more automated, efficient, and secure ITSM solution. During this session and live demo, you will understand how these two vendors come together to significantly increase IT productivity, create ease of access ac...

Cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure increased 2000% in 2022, often damaging critical operations. Remote vendors and workers have complicated the situation even more by using personal laptops, BYOD and other devices with fewer security barriers on their home networks than they would have in the workplace. These remote connections have blurred the IT-OT segmentation and expanded the attack surface providing new entry points for hackers to e...

Attacks on privilege, identities and access are relentless and the stakes are higher than ever. Identity is the new perimeter— and privileged access management (PAM) is a cornerstone of modern identity and access security. Identity and access security talks to the tools, processes, and policies that determine the right individual can access the right resource, at the right time, for the right reason, to complete their objective. To achie...