New MeriTalk-Billington Research: Federal Agencies Make Headway on Zero Trust, but More Work Remains as AI Accelerates Cyber Threats
A new report from MeriTalk and Billington CyberSecurity highlights that federal agencies are struggling to implement zero-trust security measures effectively. While agencies recognize the urgency of cyber threats, they report that AI-enabled attacks are evolving faster than their defensive capabilities.
Why it matters
The widening gap between cyber risk awareness and execution in federal agencies poses a significant threat to national security and critical infrastructure.
As federal cyber leaders gather for the 17th Annual Billington CyberSecurity Summit , the event’s theme – “Reducing Risk in An Age of AI-Enabled Threats,” – captures the reality agencies face today. Faster-moving adversaries, AI-enabled attacks, critical infrastructure risk, and growing dependence on interconnected technologies and suppliers are raising the stakes for cyber professionals working to protect systems and sustain operations.
New research from MeriTalk and Billington CyberSecurity, underwritten by General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) and Horizon3.ai, uncovers a widening gap between agencies’ understanding of cyber risks and their abilities to act on them at speed.
Eighty-three percent say organizations understand their cyber risks better than they can execute against them, and just 21% say they are reducing risk faster than new threats are evolving.
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