The paper explains how rising cyber threats and federal mandates are pushing agencies toward zero trust and phishing resistant MFA. Executive Order 14028 requires centralized identity systems, strong authentication and continuous verification. NIST deprecates shared secret and SMS based OTP methods, emphasizing PIV, FIDO2, WebAuthn and certificate based authenticators. Thales supports these requirements through the OneWelcome Identity Platform, offering enterprise wide identity management, phishing resistant MFA, ABAC based authorization and risk based access controls, enabling compliance and secure modernization.

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