Pentagon zero trust guidance for IoT and OT coming in September

As the Department of Defense races to shore up its cyber defenses with zero-trust security architectures by 2027, it will issue key guidance for how industry partners should enlist the security framework for Internet of Things and operational technology systems by the end of the fiscal year.

Randy Resnick, senior advisor of the Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office in the DOD, said Wednesday that the department is developing those guidance documents as expansions and variations of the 91 baseline “target-level” zero-trust activities it has already released for industry models to meet.

The new IoT and OT guidance are expected sometime in September, Resnick said at the GDIT Emerge: Edge Forward event, produced by FedScoop.

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