Zero trust could have limited Pentagon leak, Navy CTO says

The Navy’s chief technology officer said that if the Pentagon had already implemented its “zero-trust” approach to protecting its information networks, it may have more quickly detected a recent, high-profile classified document leak.

The discovery this month that a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard with a top secret security clearance had posted possibly hundreds of classified documents to a gaming website called Discord has drawn attention to the U.S. Defense Department’s ability to combat threats from within its own networks.