A Whole of State Strategy is intended to be a collaborative risk mitigating effort, leveraging state resources in building or strengthening local government entities cyber security defenses as well as sustaining them over time as the threat landscape continues to become more complex with increasing frequency. Why is Whole of State so important?
Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) is at the center of this IT shift, as cybersecurity mandates and guidelines require changes to legacy systems and infrastructure to keep up with sophisticated cyber threats. The benefits of ZTA are proven, yet resources to continue the digital transformation at the state and local level are often limited or not available at all. From funding and skilled workforce to tools and training, collaborating to leverage resources can only help in the ongoing battle to stay a step ahead of cyber threats.
The cultural shift required for IT modernization that started with COVID still must navigate one obstacle: how to collaborate across state and local government without compromising independent policy setting and data privacy.
Zero Trust Architecture provides a path forward that not only improves the user experience and cyber threat protection, it enables collaboration across the public sector to maximize collective cybersecurity resources. Download this white paper to learn more about how Zscaler’s multi-tenant architecture facilitates this approach to Whole of State while maintaining independent policies and data privacy at each individual agency.
