The Defense Department’s (DoD) top cybersecurity official said at the RSA Cybersecurity Conference today that the agency’s current efforts to implement zero trust security concepts represent a “game changer” in the Pentagon’s network security efforts, but emphasized that traditional perimeter and layered defenses remain as important as ever in DoD’s big-picture security strategy. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) has selected Dave McKeown as its new CISO, a DoD spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]