Higher education cybersecurity professionals have largely embraced zero trust as an outline for how to protect the complex data and networks they manage on a daily basis. Taking that outline and putting it into practice, however, can be challenging because zero trust is an aspirational target and not a tangible result colleges and universities can attain.
That’s not to say that there aren’t at least a few decent roadmaps out there that can help higher education and other institutions navigate their way to zero trust. In 2021, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released its roadmap — the Zero Trust Maturity Model — in response to a White House executive order regarding cybersecurity for federal agencies.
Just 19 months later, CISA updated that model and released version 2.0 in April 2023. While the model itself is intended to inform governmental agencies, the insights it provides are relevant to any organization with cybersecurity concerns, including higher education.
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