Successful zero-trust transformation in government

Like their private sector counterparts, government organizations are grappling with a fundamental change in how employees expect to work. Today, government workers need access from anywhere and often with any device. Partners, contractors, and suppliers in the organization’s technology ecosystem are demanding the same access, and maintaining that freedom is critical to fast collaboration and timely delivery.

This is exactly what a zero-trust architecture (ZTA) was designed for. But there’s always a seemingly endless set of hurdles hindering ZTA adoption—especially in government organizations where infrastructure complexity is more the rule than the exception, and security demands can be far greater than any faced by commercial entities.

In this article, we cover seven essential lessons we’ve learned over years of helping organizations in both the public and private sectors make the move to ZTA, and help make your journey to zero-trust security more successful—and far less painful.