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Focus Area

Cybersecurity

Zero Trust is no longer a framework on a slide. In 2026, it's an operational requirement  and identity is the new perimeter.

$10.2M

Average US data breach cost in 2026 — highest worldwide, up 9% year over year

75%

Of breaches now exploit legitimate credentials rather than technical vulnerabilities

76%

Fewer successful breaches at organizations combining Zero Trust with AI-powered security ops
The Moment We're In

2026 is the shift from conceptual framework to operational architecture

The perimeter is gone — 82% of organizations now operate in hybrid or multi-cloud environments, and the corporate network boundary no longer exists. Identity is the new perimeter. Zero Trust is evolving from a strategy slide to a continuously enforced behavioral model where AI verifies trust and mitigates anomalies in real time. Gartner predicts only 10% of large enterprises will have a mature Zero Trust program by end of 2026, up from under 1% in 2023 — a conversation ILF is positioned to lead.

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→ 84% of organizations experienced an identity-related breach in 2025, yet most EA governance frameworks still treat identity as an IT problem rather than a business-architecture problem.

→ How do leaders govern agentic AI workloads that cross cloud boundaries, vendor APIs, and regulatory jurisdictions simultaneously?

→ The CISO-CTO alignment problem: who owns Zero Trust architecture in a matrixed enterprise, and what does the governance model look like?
Focus Areas

What we are working on

Architecture

Zero Trust architecture

NIST SP 800-207 and CISA's Zero Trust Maturity Model v2.0 — moving from the seven-pillar framework to real enforcement.

Governance

Architecture governance

Building AI governance committees, and Automation Centers of Excellence in regulated industries as agentic systems proliferate.

Resilience

Resilience & business continuity

Air-gapped recovery assets, minimum-viable-company planning, and governance architecture across  environments.

Working in this space?

We are looking for scientists, founders, and practitioners to write an anchor articles or join ILF Conversations for this pillar.
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Articles

When the Network Goes Dark: A Business Leader's Playbook for Cybersecurity in the Age of Agentic AI
By Sachin Joshi,  Chief Infrastructure Architect - New York Life

The cost of breaking RSA has fallen twentyfold in six years through better software alone and the NSA's cryptographic migration deadline arrives in January 2027. A resource-estimate-based look at what's real, what's hype, and where the actual bottlenecks are.
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