Federal, state, and local government agencies operate critical services — tax collection, benefits administration, law enforcement, and national security functions — across networks that are prime targets for nation-state espionage and ransomware actors, and where a breach can compromise the personally identifiable information of millions of citizens. US Executive Order 14028 on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity and OMB M-22-09 have made Zero Trust architecture mandatory for all civilian federal agencies by end of FY2024, with CISA's Zero Trust Maturity Model providing the implementation roadmap.
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