{"id":237333,"date":"2026-06-25T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/us-santa-barbara-wins-zero-trust-cybersecurity-award\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T17:15:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:15:45","slug":"us-santa-barbara-wins-zero-trust-cybersecurity-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/us-santa-barbara-wins-zero-trust-cybersecurity-award\/","title":{"rendered":"US Santa Barbara wins zero-trust cybersecurity award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edscoop.com\/zscaler-university-uc-santa-barbara\/\">US Santa Barbara wins zero-trust cybersecurity award<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edscoop.com\/zscaler-university-uc-santa-barbara\/\">https:\/\/edscoop.com\/zscaler-university-uc-santa-barbara\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-25 15:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"edscoop.com\">edscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. <\/p>\n<p>At an event hosted by the cybersecurity firm Zscaler, the University of California, Santa Barbara was awarded the Zero Trust Champion Award, the institution announced Thursday. <\/p>\n<p> The award, which is the first to be awarded to a university, honors organizations that \u201care fundamentally redefining cybersecurity in the public and educational spheres,\u201d according to a university press release. The institution credited its Secure UCSB initiative, which \u201ccatapulted\u201d the university to \u201cthe forefront of higher education IT by proving that a robust, modern security model can actively support \u2014 rather than hinder \u2014 a thriving research ecosystem.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am incredibly proud of our team for receiving this award, which reflects our efforts to be cybersecurity leaders within higher education,\u201d Josh Bright, the university\u2019s chief information officer, said in the press release. \u201cBy embracing Zero Trust, we are going beyond just upgrading our infrastructure. We are protecting UCSB\u2019s vital research and its thriving campus community. Secure UCSB positions us to operate securely in our rapidly evolving digital future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Universities, which have sprawling IT environments open to many different parties, are among the most targeted institutions and frequently suffer ransomware and other cyberattacks.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tWritten by EdScoop Staff<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Santa Barbara wins zero-trust cybersecurity award https:\/\/edscoop.com\/zscaler-university-uc-santa-barbara\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-25 15:15:00 Source Domain: edscoop.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/edscoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-1359176615.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-237333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237335,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237333\/revisions\/237335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}