President Joe Biden’s May executive order on cybersecurity “directs agencies to focus on meeting key baseline security measures across the government, such as universal logging, multi-factor authentication (MFA), reliable asset inventories, and ubiquitous use of encryption, and to adopt a zero trust architecture,” as the Office of Management and Budget’s draft zero-trust guidance notes. What Is the Principle of Least Privilege in a Zero-Trust Security Model? Here’s what federal organizations need to know about implementing role-based access control. Paired with the principle of least privilege, government agencies can boost both access request visibility and response agility to better manage data protection at scale. Role-based access control (RBAC) offers a way to better manage remote and hybrid risk.
Without effective identity and access management (IAM), agencies’ classified or protected information could be at risk. As As Tech Native notes, government departments reported more than 1,000 missing devices in 2020. If staff have access to data or services beyond their scope of work, they could potentially put critical systems at risk. The challenge? A distributed workforce introduces new concerns around security and access control. Even as pandemic pressures slowly ease, the White House has released guidance that explicitly supports both fully remote and hybrid staffing frameworks where possible. Remote work is still on the radar for federal agencies.
As federal agencies face a future informed by hybrid and remote work, role-based access control (RBAC) underpinned by the principle of least privilege is critical to reducing security risk.
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