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Toni Townes-Whitley, president of U.S. regulated industries at Microsoft, told Federal News Network in an interview posted Monday that the COVID-19 pandemic prompted agencies to advance the move to the cloud to facilitate remote work and the transition to a zero trust model.

Eric Trexler, vice president of global government sales at Forcepoint, has said that adopting a secure access service edge network could bring potential benefits for agencies seeking to deploy unified and cloud-native services.

1901 Group has joined the Zscaler ecosystem as a Public Sector channel partner, 1901 Group reported on Thursday. 1901 Group will leverage the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange cloud platform to help federal agencies adapt to telework with secure access to mission critical applications and data. “Working in FISMA and/or FedRAMP environments takes specialized skill-sets and experience," said Peter Amirkhan, SVP of Public Sector at Zscaler.

Stan Lowe, global chief information security officer at Zscaler, wrote in a commentary published Monday on FCW that adopting Trusted Internet Connection 3.0 guidance, zero trust and Secure Access Service Edge models could help ensure security as they move to the cloud and modernize their information technology infrastructure.

Eric Trexler, vice president of global government sales at Forcepoint, has said that agencies must invest in cloud experts, implement zero-trust security concepts and ensure operational flexibility in executing direct-to-cloud approaches.

Drew Schnabel, vice president of federal at Zscaler, has said the Department of Defense must embrace a zero-trust infrastructure integrated with a framework based on secure edge-level access.

Jim Richberg, field chief information security officer at Fortinet, has said that organizations need to be proactive in protecting disparate networks against end-to-end ransomware threats based on an “as-a-service” framework.

Drew Schnabel, vice president of federal at Zscaler, said that agencies should prioritize cyber threat detection and zero-trust architecture deployment as organizations continue to implement telework operations.

Gus Hunt, managing director and cyber strategy lead at Accenture’s federal services arm, has said that agencies need senior leadership and stakeholder coordination to properly execute zero-trust implementation and improve cyber resilience.

Raytheon Technologies has unveiled a data-centric software based on zero-trust architecture that works to ensure configuration security and protect applications and data at various operating system layers.

Patrick Perry, director of emerging technology for federal, defense and intelligence community at Zscaler, has said that agencies must consider various factors in cloud implementation as remote work becomes ubiquitous.

The U.S. Navy has acquired a new supply chain risk assessment tool from KSM Consulting to quicken the analysis of the microelectronics and monitor supply chains for IT-related products, FedScoop reported Thursday.

Steve Faehl, U.S. security chief technology officer at Microsoft, has said that organizations must meet criteria under six fundamental elements when implementing a zero-trust approach to network security.

Jeanette Manfra, director for government security and compliance at Google, wrote in a Nextgov article published Monday that government agencies should consider transitioning from perimeter-based government clouds to cloud environments based on zero-trust framework as more employees telework during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jacob Noffke, senior principal cyber engineer at Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business, has said that organizations should take a proactive and multilayered approach to fortify their defenses against emerging threat vectors.