Adopting Zero Trust With Nicolas Chaillan: From Policy to DHS

Nicolas Chaillan is an Entrepreneur who became a US citizen about six years ago, and immediately joined the DHS where he became the chief architect and special advisor for cyber, leading him to become the first chief software officer for Space Force where he led the shift to DevSecOps for DoD and at the time implementation of Zero Trust. Prior to Space Force, Nic funded 12 tech companies, they built more than 187 products, which were then sold across 45 Fortunate 500 companies. Now, in his spare time, Nic produces an ongoing series, In the Nic of Time, where he discusses everything from Zero Trust to cyber and taps into a diverse set of experts.

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Takeaways From Nic and Neal

A decade ago, Iran got into federal systems, but Zero Trust would have prevented lateral movement

The days of boots-on-the-ground war is shifting towards cyber, and federal Zero Trust implementation may curb a potentially colossal attack

Beuarcacy is the largest hindrance of momentum when pursuing a cybersecurity-driven digital transformation

It’s easy to become obsolete in IT and cybersecurity, you need to educate yourself constantly

Neutral Zero Trust resources and maturity models are important, but are incredibly complex