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by degenerate 1297 days ago
The actual roadmap document (PDF) is not linked directly from the press release:

https://dodcio.defense.gov/Portals/0/Documents/Library/DoD-Z...

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Zero trust is fun, it's fine if the computers were all from the last decade and not circa. 2011-2013 HP mini's with HDD rather than SSDs or M.2 in the newest revisions of allowed devices on our networks.
Why would the hardware matter? Zero trust has zero (ha!) to do with hardware.
Don't zero trust architectures often require secure boot as well as a functioning TPM-like secure enclave to do attestation on the client device before allowing the user to logon to some resource?
I would say thats a bonus. Zero trust should be based on strong identity (e.g., x509) and authentication/authorisation-before-connect, ideally that identity would come from HWRoT/TPM. Unfortunately, many vendors say they are zero trust while only implementing some aspects/principles. I wrote a blog on this topic earlier in the year - https://netfoundry.io/demystifying-the-magic-of-zero-trust-w...
It seems to me that distributing this information as a PDF undercuts the message a bit. It's tangential; sure, but also, it doesn't strike me as particularly good security either.
what do you expect it to be distributed as?
Adobe Flash wrapped in an executable player, of course.
Thanks for making evening less boring ;) I also have my somewhat related strategy, it is called Zero Rust.
I was thinking text/plain would be best way to get the point across.
The type of people that DoD wants to read this are not the type of people that prefer text/plain.
That cuts to the nub of the problems more than any other comment. We've been spending far too much on the presentation layer of security for 20 years.
Those are the people that need to understand that a lot of security depends on simpler file formats.
Except that’s completely false.
Do you not trust the PDF?

Sounds like you're getting the message just fine!