Hardened versions of apps and services can handle classified information for government
program. That program was the successor to the controversial – and eventually dumped – $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure deal.
All four providers – Amazon Web Services , Google Cloud, and Oracle along with Microsoft – offer cloud services that rise to the level of what the DoD's Defense Information Systems Agency calls the Impact Level 5 – for data in unclassified national security systems. In Redmond's case, that means its Azure Government Secret and Top Secret services for storing and protecting high-level data. Each of the four has received provisional authorization from the DoD.
With the unveiling of Office 365 Government Secret cloud, Microsoft has an environment for IL6 – the top classification level. Office 365 Government Secret cloud provides the cyber security capabilities needed for such highly sensitive operations. It goes beyond storing and protecting the information, according to Paul Lorimer, corporate vice president of Office 365 Enterprise and cloud engineering.
Paired with Azure Government Secret and Top Secret, the Office 365 Secret Cloud offering means that"national security mission leaders can use the full cloud experience to not only establish an infrastructure platform to collect, process, and operationalize data, but to enable cloud-based collaboration and communication in the classified environment," Lorimer wrote in a"With highly sensitive data, it is vital to ensure data is secure and controlled across multiple applications,...
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