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Credit to Author: Steve Faehl| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 17:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2022, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) released its formal Zero Trust (ZT) Strategy<\/a> with the goal of achieving enterprise-wide Target Level ZT implementation by September 30, 2027. A pioneer among these departments is the United States Navy, which recently launched Flank Speed\u2014a large-scale zero trust deployment that aims to protect more than 560,000 identities and devices while improving the overall user experience.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

As part of the department\u2019s ongoing assessments of zero trust implementation, Flank Speed just underwent its second round of security assessments<\/a> sponsored by the DoD Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office (PfMO)\u2014with tremendous results. Just two years after the initial DoD guidance was issued, the United States Navy demonstrated that their integrated approach to security could achieve the department\u2019s ZT goals, years ahead of schedule. The model developed by the Navy in collaboration with Microsoft can be replicated to help both civilian and defense agencies to similarly accelerate their own zero trust goals. <\/p>\n

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DoD Zero Trust Report<\/h2>\n
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The United States Navy is proving that Zero Trust goes beyond compliance standards and has become a proven security methodology with real world results.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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During the exhaustive test, the comprehensive, integrated suite of Microsoft Security tools enabled Navy personnel to meet Target Level zero trust implementation, achieving 100% success in the 91 Target Level activities tested. Further testing of 61 Advanced Level zero trust activities determined the Navy had achieved success in nearly all (60 of 61) advanced Target Level activities.<\/p>\n

The DoD expanded beyond traditional penetration testing to thoroughly evaluate all 152 zero trust activities. Prior to the month-long test, military personnel were trained on the effective operation of the comprehensive zero trust solution over the course of six months. This training allowed Navy personnel to detect and mitigate all attack vectors presented to them by the near-peer adversary assessment team.  <\/p>\n

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“Flank Speed’s unprecedented ability to achieve the very highest level of DoD ZT outcomes demonstrate to us that the department and the federal government that ZT cyber defenses work very effectively to protect and defend our data and systems against the very latest cyber-attacks from our adversaries.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014Mr. Randy Resnick, Senior Executive Service, Chief ZT Officer for the DoD <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Components of success <\/h2>\n

Flank Speed is a large-scale deployment born out of the need to securely facilitate remote workers at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and built on the Navy\u2019s unclassified combined Azure and Microsoft 365 Impact Level 5(IL5) cloud. To achieve a secure operating environment, the Navy aligned its security approach around the DoD\u2019s seven zero trust pillars\u2014each of which represents its own protection area:  <\/p>\n

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