BrandPost: Bridging Data Retention Gaps En Route to Zero Trust

Change isn’t coming—it’s rapidly underway for many government agencies and public sector organizations. Driving that change is the ever-present threat of ransomware and recent cybersecurity initiatives that have bubbled up in response. The result is a long list of organizations taking stock of their incident response capabilities as they work to implement fresh zero trust mandates.

Cybersecurity modernization efforts ramped up this summer when the Biden Administration issued Executive Order 14028, Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, which among other things, mandates the adoption of zero trust policies and establishes rules and systems for reporting cyber incidents and sharing relevant data. To provide further guidance, the White House also addressed a memorandum (M-21-31) to the heads of executive departments and agencies which outlines requirements and benchmarks for the executive order’s data sharing mandates.

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