Protecting Data in New Ways with Sean Connelly, Former Director of CISA’s Zero Trust Initiative

In this episode, host Raghu Nandakumara sits down with Sean Connelly, Former Director of CISA’s Zero Trust Initiative, to discuss the evolution of network architectures; why incidents over the past 5 years have catalyzed a greater federal focus on cyber resilience, and specifically Zero Trust; and how CISA is thinking about protecting data in new ways.

Timestamps: 

(04:39) How the nature of the perimeter has changed 

(12:00) The shift towards being critical-asset focused and how it accelerated cloud adoption

(15:36) The process behind drafting recent regulation and EO 14028

(36:56) Are agencies making the expected improvements? 

(41:48) The key challenges moving forward 

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Links

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