Guide
The Zscaler Zero Trust Playbook for Federal Agencies
This playbook explains how U.S. federal agencies can implement Zero Trust architecture to meet the cybersecurity objectives outlined in the Biden Administration's Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity and the federal Zero Trust strategy. It examines the limitations of traditional perimeter-based security in today's cloud-first, mobile, and hybrid work environments, where users, applications, and data are distributed beyond agency networks. The playbook provides a roadmap for adopting identity-based access, least-privilege principles, continuous verification, application segmentation, secure internet and SaaS access, workload protection, and data security. It also demonstrates how the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange helps agencies modernize legacy infrastructure, improve cyber
