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The National Security Agency has published its latest guidance for organizations interested in moving toward a zero-trust cybersecurity framework, with a particular focus on stopping unauthorized access to data both in transit and in storage.<\/span><\/p>\n

NSA recommendations include the use of encryption, tagging, labeling, data-loss prevention strategies, and data rights management tools. The NSA suggestions are intentionally aligned with <\/span>zero-trust frameworks<\/a><\/span> to help government agencies and enterprises defend against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Malicious cyber actors continuously increase their ability to infiltrate networks and gain access to sensitive data,” Dave Luber, the NSA’s director of cybersecurity, said in a statement about the latest round of <\/span>NSA zero-trust advisories<\/a><\/span>. “Assuming that breaches will occur, implementing the pillars of the zero-trust framework is how we combat that activity.”<\/span><\/p>\n

This focus on what the NSA in its report calls the “data pillar” is the continuation of the agency’s development of zero-trust best practices, begun when it first released “<\/span>Embracing a Zero Trust Security Model<\/a><\/span>” in February 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just last month, the NSA updated its <\/span>guidelines for implementing zero trust<\/a><\/span>, which drew a distinction between macro- and microsegmentation of networks. Macrosegmentation is intended for workgroups and departments; micro-segmentation separates traffic even further so that not all users have the same access rights \u2014 a bid to reduce an organization’s attack surface.<\/span><\/p>\n

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