Zero Trust for Military Healthcare: -An Overview - DAU’s Professor of Cybersecurity, Dr. Paul Shaw tailored a special presentation for the DHA community. This webinar provides an overview to better understand our DoD Zero Trust (ZT) objectives and the potential benefits for military healthcare.

Dr. Shaw leverages knowledge and experiences with other DoD organizations on Zero Trust implementation for application to the military healthcare environment. ZT Implementation is the DoD CIO’s “Number One Priority.”  Healthcare information flow is complex and dynamic with multiple operational, regulatory, and infrastructural constraints.

DHA does not have a "one size" fits all for ZT implementation.  Instead ZT implementation will vary across: DHA’s headquarters; 400+ clinics, hospitals, and medical centers; and Enterprise Support Activities.  Translating the DoD CIO’s “Zero Trust Strategy,” “Zero Trust Execution Roadmap,” and “Zero Trust Reference Architecture” from security objectives to engineering implementation will require navigating implementation “gaps,” “pain points,” and “”second – third order effects.”  While challenging - the opportunity to transform cybersecurity operations and allow healthcare operations to detect/counter more advanced cyber threats make this journey worthy of exploration.

 This webinar assists DHA personnel on their security engineering and architectural journey to achieve DoD security objectives - yet acknowledge healthcare operational, regulatory, and infrastructure issues.