FRC provides a Zero Trust Architecture plan you can implement right away

Zero Trust is more than just a cybersecurity buzzword—it’s a strategic imperative for federal agencies looking to safeguard mission-critical systems. But navigating the complexities of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) can be overwhelming. That’s where Federal Resources Corporation (FRC) comes in.

Why Zero Trust Matters

The journey to Zero Trust isn’t just about deploying new tools—it’s about integrating security into every aspect of your organization. From identity and access management to network segmentation and data encryption, Zero Trust ensures that every access request is verified, every device is monitored, and every workload is protected.

Zero Trust also strengthens your resilience against both external and insider threats. By applying continuous verification and adopting a least-privilege access model, agencies can minimize risks while maintaining operational efficiency. With a well-implemented ZTA, agencies experience improved visibility, better control over sensitive data, and faster incident response.

At FRC, we help agencies tackle Zero Trust with a comprehensive, mission-driven approach. Our partnerships with top-tier vendors like Trellix, Elastic, Owl Defense, Zscaler, and Okta enable us to offer a unified, multi-vendor solution tailored to your unique security requirements.

How Our Partners Support Zero Trust

Okta’s Identity Cloud provides Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM), which is a foundational element to ZTA to consistently verify the identity of users and devices.

• Identity Management: Okta provides a single, unified directory to manage user identities; simplifies user provisioning, de-provisioning and lifecycle management. Can integrate with existing directories (like Microsoft/Azure Active Directory) to provide a single source of truth for user identities.
• User Lifecycle Management: Okta automates the user lifecycle, from onboarding, moving throughout projects/teams, and offboarding.
• Access & Credential Management:  Okta enables single-sign on (SSO), allows for granular access control policies based on attributes such as user roles, device posture, location, and analyzes behavior/risk signals to dynamically adjust access requirements.  For example, if a user attempts to log in from an unusual location or time, Okta might require additional authentication.
• Multi-Factor Authentication: Okta provides MFA included adaptive MFA to dynamically adjust the MFA requirements based on risk signals.

Zscaler’s platform is designed to embody the principles of Zero Trust, and it effectively provides the functions of a Policy Engine (PE), Policy Administrator (PA), and Policy Enforcement Point (PEP). The PE, PA, and PEP are the components within a Zero Trust Architecture for dynamically assessing and controlling access based on contextual factors, ensuring that trust is never implicit.

• Policy Engine (PE): Zscaler centralizes policy management, organizations to define and manage security policies across all users, devices, and applications, regardless of location. It aggregates contextual data from various sources, including user identity, device posture, location, and threat intelligence feeds.
• Policy Administrator (PA): Zscaler  orchestrates the implementation of security policies, translating the Policy Engine’s decisions into actionable commands. Handles session management, ensuring that users maintain authorized access for only the duration that policy dictates.
• Policy Enforcement Point (PEP): Zscaler enforces security policies at the internet edge, performing inline inspection of all traffic, allowing it to enforce security policies in real-time.

Trellix provides a platform of Policy Information Points (PIPs) include Endpoint Security, Data Security, Network Security, Email Security, Collaboration Security, Threat Intelligence, and Security Analytics (SIEM & SOAR).  In addition to providing tremendous value in security protection, these diverse PIPs are crucial for Zero Trust Architectures as they deliver the rich contextual data necessary for informed, dynamic access control decisions.

• Endpoint Security: Trellix detects and stops threats to endpoint through a suite of protection technologies included anti-virus, application firewall, proactive threat countermeasures,
• Data Security: Trellix provides data loss prevention to safeguard against internal and accidental data leaks, data encryption to protect enterprise and removable device data, and database security to find and defend sensitive data within databases.
• Network Security: Trellix provides Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), advanced detection for lateral movement, network data loss prevention, and a threat detection sandbox to detonate and inspect unknown malware.
• Email Security: Email security for Office 365 and Google Workspace, providing advanced URL defense, anti-virus, anti-span
• Collaboration Security: Security for data shared on common collaboration tools such as Microsoft 365, Teams, Salesforce, ServiceNow.
• Threat Intelligence: Trellix provides actionable intelligence and advanced analysis of sponsors, advanced persistent threats (APTs), developing threats, trends, and vectors..
• Security Analytics (SIEM, SOAR, Forensics): AI-Guided insights for advanced Detection and Response across endpoints, network, email. Provides ability for forensics analysis to determine root cause of threats.

Elastic provides additional and alternative Policy Information Points (PIPs) in Security Analytics, User Behavior Analytics, Observability into system and application performance, offering a comprehensive, real-time context that strengthens Zero Trust by enabling dynamic access decisions based on a holistic view of system and user activity.

• Security Analytics: Elastic can ingest and analyze massive amounts of data from diverse sources and apply pre-built detection rules and machine learning models to identify threats. Its interactive visualizations and reporting capabilities support threat analysis.
• User Behavior Analytics: Elastic uses machine learning to establish baseline behavior and detect anomalies that may indicate compromised accounts or insider threats.
• Observability: Elastic’s log and event aggregation and analysis capabilities help correlate security events with other observability data to provide warnings of infrastructure or application problems that can impact security.

Owl provides cross-domain solutions (CDS) to enable controlled transfer of data between networks with different security classifications. While not a core Zero Trust  component, CDS align with Zero Trust principles by enforcing strict, granular control over data flow between disparate trust zones, ensuring that even within controlled transfers, implicit trust is minimized. This is particularly vital for our customers in the DoD and Intelligence Communities.

Key Highlights from Our Zero Trust Approach

• End-to-End Guidance: We guide you through every step, from procurement to deployment and ongoing management. Our experts ensure seamless integration with minimal disruption.
• Mission-Focused Aggregation: We align best-in-class cybersecurity technologies into a cohesive ZTA framework. This aggregated approach maximizes operational efficiency and strengthens security across your agency.
• Simplified Compliance: FRC helps agencies meet the DoD’s 91 Security Capabilities through an integrated strategy. Our Zero Trust solutions are designed to align with federal mandates and accelerate compliance efforts.

Ready to Secure Your Mission?

Don’t let the complexity of Zero Trust slow down your modernization efforts. Learn how FRC can help streamline your journey and strengthen your agency’s security posture. Our team of experts is ready to provide tailored guidance and comprehensive support.

Explore our full Zero Trust approach and resources here: FRC Zero Trust Architecture