Zero Trust for DoD IL4/IL5: Architecture Beyond the NIST 800-207 Checklist

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DoD Zero Trust activities across 7 pillars â€” most contractors are addressing fewer than 40

The Department of Defense Zero Trust Strategy (November 2022) mandates that all DoD systems achieve Target Level Zero Trust by 2027. IL4 and IL5 workloads â€” those processing Controlled Unclassified Information and National Security Systems data respectively â€” face additional requirements beyond the NIST SP 800-207 baseline. The gap between what NIST 800-207 requires and what DoD IL4/IL5 actually demands is where most contractor implementations fail: FedRAMP High authorization is necessary but not sufficient, DISA STIGs must be applied at the workload level, and the DoD Zero Trust Reference Architecture v2.0 specifies infrastructure requirements that no commercial cloud CSP satisfies out of the box.

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