DoD to automate assessment of zero trust implementation plans

Published: April 5, 2024, 12:42 p.m.

b'In November, the Defense Department\\u2019s chief information officer\\u2019s office received 39 zero trust implementation plans from the military services, defense agencies and combatant commands.\\nIt took 35 full-time staff and nearly four months to review those plans, provide tailored feedback and receive final versions with all recommendations incorporated.\\nRandy Resnick, the director of the Zero Trust Architecture Program Management Office in the DoD CIO\\u2019s office said the lesson they learned about the process is that they can\\u2019t repeat it again.\\n\\u201cIt was a tremendous effort. We really can\\u2019t repeat this process, it is untenable. 35 people across almost four months full time, you start adding up the resource costs of that and that\\u2019s not something that we could do on an annual basis. So it became apparent to us that we need to automate this process. We need to put it in electronic form where we could actually apply AI tools to actually ask questions and to achieve answers based on the submissions. That\\u2019s where our head is going right now,\\u201d Resnick said during the DoD Zero Trust Symposium Tuesday.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'