If an enterprise wants a lesson in quickly forming a zero-trust strategy for a sprawling organization, they should look to the US federal government’s effort to make all agencies compliant by 2024. That’s what Chris DeRusha, who was appointed federal CISO in the Office of Budget and Management (OMB) in 2021, had to figure out quickly.
He used his keynote talk on Wednesday during Forrester’s Security & Risk event in Washington, D.C., to give an overview of the government’s daunting cybersecurity efforts and how that strategy could be used in other organizations.