{"id":217380,"date":"2026-02-25T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/five-stages-to-secure-military-operational-technology-using-zero-trust-and-risk-operations-centers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:10:09","slug":"five-stages-to-secure-military-operational-technology-using-zero-trust-and-risk-operations-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/five-stages-to-secure-military-operational-technology-using-zero-trust-and-risk-operations-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Five stages to secure military operational technology using zero trust and risk operations centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/commentary\/2026\/02\/five-stages-to-secure-military-operational-technology-using-zero-trust-and-risk-operations-centers\/\">Five stages to secure military operational technology using zero trust and risk operations centers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/commentary\/2026\/02\/five-stages-to-secure-military-operational-technology-using-zero-trust-and-risk-operations-centers\/\">https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/commentary\/2026\/02\/five-stages-to-secure-military-operational-technology-using-zero-trust-and-risk-operations-centers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-25 15:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"federalnewsnetwork.com\">federalnewsnetwork.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:smaller; color:#666666; margin-bottom: 1rem;\">As adversaries continue targeting critical U.S. infrastructure, DoD officials must continue to drive a proactive approach to zero trust and OT security.<\/p>\n<p>                            Jonathan Trull<\/p>\n<p>\n                                    <span class=\"Entry-date__date\">February 25, 2026<\/span> <span class=\"Entry-date__time\">3:02 pm<\/span>                                <\/p>\n<p>4 min read<\/p>\n<p>Despite investments in cyber-physical system (CPS) security, recent research\u00a0indicates that more than two-thirds of government operational technology (OT) leaders expect a disruptive cyber incident within the next year.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing these risks, energy leaders recently called for stronger information technology (IT) and OT integration to secure the nation\u2019s power grid\u00a0at the 2025 Billington CyberSecurity Summit. The Pentagon responded in November 2025 by issuing authoritative guidance for OT, titled \u201cZero Trust for Operational Technology Activities and Outcomes,\u201d\u00a0detailing 84 minimum and 21 advanced OT-specific zero trust activities. The goal is to protect critical systems like industrial controls and building automation, bridging the gap between legacy OT and the broader Defense Department zero trust strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The guidance, or OT fan chart, provides a revised set of activities&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/commentary\/2026\/02\/five-stages-to-secure-military-operational-technology-using-zero-trust-and-risk-operations-centers\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five stages to secure military operational technology using zero trust and risk operations centers https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/commentary\/2026\/02\/five-stages-to-secure-military-operational-technology-using-zero-trust-and-risk-operations-centers\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DEFENSE_04.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,64,57],"class_list":["post-217380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-disruptive","tag-energy","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217382,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217380\/revisions\/217382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}