Cybersecurity & Zero Trust

Security-first architecture. Continuous compliance. Resilience against today's real threats.

EO 14028, OMB M-22-09, CISA's Zero Trust Maturity Model, and the National Cybersecurity Strategy have together reshaped the federal cybersecurity mandate into the most ambitious restructuring of government security posture in a generation. Perimeter-based security is obsolete. Nation-state adversaries are persistent. Ransomware is ubiquitous. And the compliance bar covering FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST 800-53, FIPS 140-2, and CMMC continues to rise.

Goldman Edwards approaches cybersecurity as a fundamental architectural discipline, not a compliance exercise. Security-first design means identity management, access controls, data protection, and threat detection are designed into systems from the first architecture decision, not added as a layer after the fact. Every Goldman Edwards engagement includes cybersecurity expertise from the beginning, ensuring that the solutions we deliver are defensible, auditable, and sustainable without creating the security debt that undermines so many federal IT programs.

Zero Trust Architecture

End-to-end ZTA aligned to NIST SP 800-207 and CISA's five-pillar model: Identity, Devices, Networks, Applications and Workloads, and Data. Goldman Edwards designs for the practical realities of federal environments including legacy systems, hybrid infrastructure, and constrained security budgets.

ICAM & Identity

Comprehensive Identity, Credential, and Access Management covering identity proofing, PIV/CAC integration, modern MFA, continuous authentication, least-privilege enforcement, and Privileged Access Management (PAM), designed to eliminate standing privileges and lateral movement risk.

ATO & cATO Acceleration

Full RMF lifecycle support from categorization through authorization, plus continuous ATO operating models that replace annual point-in-time assessments with always-on control effectiveness monitoring and automated evidence generation.

Zero Trust & Compliance

  • Zero Trust Architecture per NIST SP 800-207 and CISA
  • ICAM and full identity lifecycle management
  • PIV/CAC and modern MFA implementation
  • Continuous authentication architecture
  • Micro-segmentation and least-privilege enforcement
  • ATO and cATO covering the full RMF lifecycle
  • FISMA / FedRAMP compliance and reporting

Software supply chain security and SBOM generation

Threat Detection & Response

  • SIEM implementation and tuning including Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel
  • SOAR playbook development and automation
  • 24/7 threat monitoring and incident response
  • Adversary simulation and red team exercises
  • Penetration testing including black box and gray box approaches
  • Digital forensics and malware analysis
  • Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Supply chain risk management (SCRM) aligned to NIST 800-161r1

The outcome

A defensible, audit-ready, continuously monitored security posture built on zero trust principles, aligned to EO 14028, OMB M-22-09, and the CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model, with the operational resilience to detect, respond to, and recover from sophisticated cyber threats.