Cybersecurity Dive August 6, 2025
The zero-trust initiative, which gained steam during the Biden administration, is still underway.
LAS VEGAS — The U.S. government is still pushing agencies to adopt zero-trust network designs, continuing a project that gained steam during the Biden administration, a senior cybersecurity policy official said on Wednesday.
“It must continue to move forward,” Michael Duffy, the acting federal chief information security officer, said during a panel at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference. “That architectural side of it is very important for us to get right as we integrate new technologies [like] artificial intelligence into the ways we operate.”
Zero-trust networking emphasizes the concept of throwing up hurdles to hackers who penetrate a computer system, limiting the damage they can do by...







