Multiple Paths to Zero Trust - Channeling D&D, LOTR and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

One of my least favorite tasks of Basic Training was weapons maintenance. I didn’t really mind cleaning my M-16A2 rifle, but sometimes it just felt pointless. We’d spend hours stripping, cleaning, reassembling, inspecting and, ultimately, being told it still wasn’t clean enough by the drill sergeant or armor.

It took me a while, but eventually, I realized that the benefits of this process went beyond just a clean weapon. Although there are obvious lessons there, I also got to know that rifle down to its firing pin retaining pin. So, if it misfired during field training exercises, I knew exactly how to correct the issue in the moment and perform more extensive actions in an expediate manner when time allowed.

I wasn’t just cleaning a rifle, I was gaining insight into all aspects of an essential battlefield tool.

I think there are some parallels to my training experience and your approaches to implementing Zero Trust frameworks. While the upfront benefits are pretty straightforward, my guest for this episode lays out a number of other gains that organizations realize while implementing Zero Trust. 

Watch/listen as Kam Chumley-Soltani, Managing Director, OT Security at Armis, discusses:

• How Zero Trust initiatives can lead to greater cyber hygiene by demanding greater scrutiny of visibility, vulnerability management and threat detection capabilities.
• Managing the need to patch versus the realities of operational downtime.
• Defining and establishing priorities around your crown jewels.
• How Dungeons & Dragons can help improve tabletop training exercises.
• Why new Department of War regulations are having a far-reaching impact on Zero Trust.
• Avoiding common segmentation mistakes.
• Why the foundation for successful AI implementation is still being built.

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