Software Engineering Institute

In this keynote address, Tim Denman, cybersecurity learning director at Defense Acquisition University (DAU), discusses the history of the Department of Defense's adoption of zero trust and improving the nation's cybersecurity by implementing Executive Order 14028 (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/05/12/executive-order-on-improving-the-nations-cybersecurity). Denman also presents the underlying strategy behind zero trust and changing the organizational mindset for the cultural adoption of zero trust.