Defense officials tease ‘new and different’ zero-trust strategy set to arrive this month

Top Defense Department officials say their forthcoming zero-trust strategy will represent a "new and different" approach that comes as the Pentagon works to implement a "targeted" enterprise-wide security framework within the next five years.

That zero-trust strategy, which builds off of DOD’s initial transition efforts through the previously released reference architecture, aims to go beyond the “seven pillars” laid out in that earlier framework through the creation of tiers defined by a required capability set.

Specifically, Pentagon cyber...