Event Recap: Securing The Cloud
Branko Bokan of CISA reminded us that it “is tasked with protecting the nation against cybersecurity threats” and added that although CISA focuses on efforts to serve the Federal Enterprise, these “efforts are also available to the general public and can be applied to other agencies within the U.S. Government as well as other organizations in the private sector.” To that end, Ross Foard, Senior Engineer, clarified that “CISA’s mission is to ‘Lead the national effort to understand, manage, and reduce risk to our cyber and physical infrastructure.’”
With CISA’s focus and the continuously evolving world of cybersecurity, these two experts went into greater detail about:
- Efforts specifically underway within the federal executive agencies
- OMB Memo on Modernizing FedRAMP
- Journey to Zero Trust
- Identity Federation and Management
- Multi-Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Samples of cyber “Bad Practices”
- Weak points that bad actors use for initial access
- Different types of MFA’s and how they vary in strength
- Traditional vs. current Zero Trust Architecture
- Context-Based Access Control
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