Federal agencies have a new reference for modernizing how they meet Trusted Internet Connections requirements. On June 24, 2026, CISA published The Journey to Zero Trust: Using Secure Access Service Edge in a Modern TIC 3.0 Solution, a guidance document hosted under its TIC program page.

The guidance explains how the TIC 3.0 initiative helps agencies modernize the way users connect to applications, data, and services. CISA notes it is not limited to federal agencies: any organization retiring perimeter-based architectures or advancing zero trust can use it.

The practical shift is away from a fixed network topology and toward outcomes: visibility, telemetry, and control. That means audit readiness will increasingly hinge on demonstrable monitoring and logging rather than gateway placement.

Security leaders should treat the publication as a trigger to review legacy TIC 2.0-era network designs and the vendor contracts tied to them. Confirm what evidence auditors will expect if enforcement moves to cloud-delivered, distributed points rather than a centralized gateway.

Netskope’s Aug. 6 blog reads the guidance as validating SASE as a compliant path and ties it to logging requirements and OMB policy history. Those specific compliance mechanics are the vendor’s interpretation, so agencies should verify them against the CISA document directly before acting.

For enterprise teams tracking federal mandates as a leading indicator, the takeaway is simpler: distributed, cloud-delivered enforcement is now sanctioned federal practice.