Reducing Technical Debt Supports Federal Cybersecurity Strategies>
Government CIO Media & Research – Sarah Sybert
The Department of the Air Force and the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are implementing new programs and services to secure critical data, balancing targeted modernization strategies to upgrade aging IT infrastructures with new security approaches such as zero trust.

Air Force CISO Aaron Bishop said one of the biggest challenges he faces is modernization and security at scale. The service has the largest footprint of facilities around the world in the Defense Department. To capture the value of zero trust, Bishop said he’s focused on interoperability to provide the right data at the right time. Effective and resilient communication is the crux of the push for interoperability.

To improve connectivity and speed up data processing, the Air Force is turning to software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN), which offers increased data rates, reduced latency, anti-jam abilities, low probability of intercept or detection and scalability.

Additionally, Air Force CIO Lauren Knausenberger is spearheading the Race to the Cloud program, which prioritizes modernization, financial efficacy and improved visibility across the interoperability of all its missions, communities and bases in both air and space. This effort focuses on onboarding legacy systems to cloud instances to drive standardization, improve monitoring and align with the recently released Zero Trust Roadmap.
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