Cybersecurity tops the list of federal concerns for 2022, as it has for many previous years. But with the expanded attack surfaces that come with remote work, and increasing migration to the cloud, it’s getting more complicated.

Report after report finds not only escalating numbers of cyberattacks, but more sophisticated attacks as more devious hackers, nation-state involvement and insidious trends like ransomware-as-a-service take a deeper and deeper hold.

While it can be a bit overwhelming to address all the angles necessary to truly secure agency networks, there is really no choice. One way to simplify it is to bring it back to basics—zero trust, for everything from data, APIs, nodes and ports to users.