Threat awareness, cloud security, quantum computing among chief agency cyber policy priorities ahead

Federal CIOs and CISOs met to define 2025 cybersecurity policy priorities, emphasizing advancing zero trust, improving operational visibility across agency environments, hardening secure cloud deployments (leveraging CISA initiatives), and preparing for post-quantum cryptography; officials also urged agencies to build on existing investments such as Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation, strengthen multifactor authentication and phishing resistance, and maintain unified effort ahead of the 2025 transition.