Federal agencies are operating at a critical inflection point. The boundaries between IT, IoT, and OT environments have dissolved, yet organizational structures, security programs, and funding models remain stubbornly siloed. Adversaries see no such divisions. Attacks targeting OT protocols surged 84% in 2025, and the consequences of a breach are not measured in data loss alone. They are measured in mission failure, public safety, and national security.
The policy environment is accelerating fast with guidance being release from NIST, DoW, OMB, and NSA, all needing significant examination and alignment across multiple government priorities.
While agencies are being asked to execute across all these frameworks simultaneously, readiness lags far behind. Incomplete asset inventories, undocumented shadow connections, and siloed IT and OT teams mean risk is assessed in fragments, rather than as a whole. Resource allocation decisions are being made without a unified view of the actual attack surface.
This session convenes senior federal IT and security leaders for a practitioner level conversation on what it takes to operationalize Zero Trust across a converged federal IT environments.
Key Takeaways:
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Identifying barriers preventing unified cyber visibility across IT, IoT, and OT environments
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Developing steps to modernizing and securing these environments
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Ways to leverage AI to assist constrained workforces work smarter
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Practical ideas for agencies navigating an increasingly complex standards landscapes
Attendees will leave knowing where the federal community stands, where it needs to go, and how to build the internal case for integrating and securing these complex security environments.
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