As cloud migration is accelerating across the federal landscape, zero trust is emerging as the most effective and widely agreed upon cybersecurity approach today.
In a new video interview, Executive Mosaic explored the intersection of zero trust and cloud with Oracle Senior Vice President Glen Dodson as part of a series on the winners of the Department of Defense’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract.
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Zero trust, Dodson said, “is really all about taking the position that your network is already compromised and can’t be trusted.”
“The concept of zero trust security has really grown over the last few years, and for a number of reasons. But two big reasons are just the growth of public cloud itself and also the threat of not just external actors, but also internal actors on the network,” Dodson revealed in conversation with Executive Mosaic’s Summer Myatt.
Dodson lauded the DOD’s “strong posture” with zero trust in light of the department’s new zero trust security program management office and the release of their first zero trust strategy.
Oracle has submitted its target and advanced controls to the National Security Agency and the DOD CIO office for review, and the company is now moving into the test phase for its zero trust security operations and posture, Dodson said.
“Oracle really has a long history of protecting the Department of Defense’s most sensitive data. We have always taken a security first design principle in anything that we build or design or innovate. That principle extends into our cloud and second generation cloud offerings that we’ll bring to market and for the department inside of JWCC,” he shared.
Hear more of Dodson’s thoughts on zero trust and how it’s changing the cybersecurity paradigm — watch the full video interview here.