Sean Connelly, CISA | Zero Trust Summit 2024
Advances in AI-assisted technologies and the growing sophistication of international threat actors are increasing the stakes for federal agencies to implement new and more effective safeguards to protect the nation’s strategic data. Much of that effort revolves around the Biden administration’s Executive Orders on National Cybersecurity and related mandates coming due in 2024 to adopt zero-trust architectures across their enterprises.
Sean Connelly, Senior Cybersecurity Architect & TIC Program Manager for CISA, joined other top cybersecurity decision-makers from government and tech at CyberScoop’s Zero Trust Summit to discuss strategies in laying the foundations for and establishing the major pillars of zero-trust cybersecurity.
In this interview, Connelly answered the following questions:
1. What do you see as some of the biggest technical challenges agencies are still facing to meet the key mandates in 2024 in OMB's Zero Trust Strategy Memo 2209?
2. What are some of the biggest organizational challenges that agencies are still facing in establishing an overall zero trust environment?
This interview is part of a series filmed in conjunction with the Zero Trust Summit held on February 15, 2024, in Washington, D.C.