Government institutions are prime cyber targets. In fact, according to a 2021 report from Auth0, more than 10 percent of registration attempts for online government services represent threat actors trying to create fake accounts. Around the world, public policymakers and technology leaders have chosen to strengthen their security posture by adopting Zero Trust architectures. In our recent State of Zero Trust Security survey, Okta looked at the progress that global government technology leaders are taking to implement an identity-first Zero Trust security posture and found two important takeaways: When it comes to implementing Zero Trust security measures, governments are outpacing the private sector By implementing Zero Trust security, governments have built momentum—and their journey starts with identity Governments are outpacing the private sector when it comes to implementing Zero Trust security measures While governments around the world are often assumed to be lagging behind the private sector when.