NIST offers ‘planning guide’ for agency administrators on implementing zero trust architecture

A new white paper from the National Institute of Standards and Technology aims to familiarize federal agency officials and other stakeholders with NIST’s risk management framework as they go about implementing zero trust architecture, which is a requirement of the executive order issued by President Biden one year ago this week.

“Input and cooperation from various stakeholders in an enterprise is needed for a zero trust architecture to succeed in improving the enterprise security posture. Some of these stakeholders may...