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Oracle approved to handle government secret-level data

The accreditation puts Oracle on a level playing field with its top competitors in the federal cloud space — Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

Apr 23, 2024 By Billy Mitchell

Google Cloud at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2019 — (FedScoop)

Google gets authorization to work with top-secret intelligence, defense data

Defense and intelligence agencies will now be able to use Google’s air-gapped cloud platform to process top-secret workloads.

Apr 9, 2024 By Billy Mitchell

AWS, Amazon Web Services, RSA 2019 — (Scoop News Group photo)

DOD wants to place virtual sensors in AWS’s commercial cloud for a secure connection

DISA will place sensors in AWS's cloud to monitor "workloads hosted therein." It's not a purchase of services, but it's sign the Pentagon expects to do more…

Jul 10, 2019 By Billy Mitchell

Microsoft, RSA 2019 — (Scoop News Group photo)

Microsoft says it’s close to Secret-level cloud authorization

Azure Government Secret is in what the company calls "private preview and pending accreditation."

Apr 17, 2019 By Billy Mitchell

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Benjamin Wilkie, 269th Combat Communications Squadron infrastructure cyber transport technician, verifies connections on network equipment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Luke Milano)

DOD IG: Unsecured classified access points put lives at risk

A lack of "logical or physical security safeguards could pose a risk to the life and safety of DoD personnel," says a new report.

Apr 5, 2019 By Billy Mitchell

U.S. Air Force cyber security technicians with the 355th Communications Squadron review work orders at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Ariz., Sept. 26, 2018. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Frankie D. Moore)

DOD clarifies security requirements to compete for $8B back-office cloud

There's good news for potential DEOS cloud vendors who don't yet meet the military's level 6 security requirements.

Feb 13, 2019 By Billy Mitchell

A Soldier with 3-6 FA 1BCT 10th Mountain Division, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, navigates the new Precision Fires – Dismounted system at the Mission Training Center, Fort Drum, April 5, 2018.

DISA looks to industry for support on classified mobility program

The agency is proposing a single-award indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract to support the Department of Defense Mobility Classified Capability (DMCC) programs for secret and top secret…

Oct 17, 2018 By Samantha Ehlinger