5 Things Government Agencies Need to Know About Zero Trust

This document provides strategic guidance for adopting zero trust architecture, anchored by NIST’s Dec. 4, 2024 draft guidance, and emphasizes starting small, continuous monitoring, strict access controls, and comprehensive logging. It highlights the necessity of strong exposure management—spanning asset visibility across IT, cloud, OT, and IoT—and explains how programs integrating vulnerability management, web application security, cloud security, identity security, attack path analysis, and patch management enable effective zero trust implementation and communication across the organization.