From Policy to Practice: Operationalizing Zero Trust for the Federal Government in the Age of AI

A new survey of 275 federal civilian and defense IT and security leaders,  conducted by Market Connections and GovExec, finds near-universal agreement that AI must be governed like any other identity within Zero Trust. Yet a widening gap separates that intent from reality: only 11% have fully integrated AI into their Zero Trust architecture, just 24% have real visibility into API-based AI interactions, and only 13% enforce security policy consistently across AI agents, apps, endpoints, cloud, and SaaS.

Download the full report to see where federal AI security actually stands, and what it will take to close the gap.