How Human Security Testing Helps the U.S. Government’s Zero Trust Mandate

### Executive Summary — The document describes the U.S. federal government's accelerated adoption of a Zero Trust cybersecurity model (guided by OMB goals to be achieved by October 2024), outlines the five Zero Trust pillars (Identity, Devices, Networks, Applications and Workloads, Data), emphasizes the importance of Vulnerability Disclosure Programs and continuous external testing during the transition, and positions HackerOne's ethical-hacker platform and services as aligned solutions to help organizations validate and maintain Zero Trust deployments.