Steve Vetter, Cisco | 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.
Steve Vetter, Senior Strategic Solution Executive and Federal Strategist, U.S. Public Sector, at Cisco 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, Vetter answered the following questions:
1. How would you characterize the extent to which most government agencies are achieving real-time visibility of users and devices on government networks? And what still has to happen to achieve that?
2. Where are you seeing signs that AI will help accelerate agency efforts to establish zero trust practices?
This interview is part of a series filmed in conjunction with the Zero Trust Summit held on February 15, 2024, in Washington, D.C.