DISA shifts focus from price to security for cloud capabilities

By Justin Doubleday / August 24, 2017 at 11:54 AM
The Defense Information Systems Agency is focusing more on the cybersecurity of commercial cloud offerings, as the agency works with the General Services Administration to make security standards more uniform across government, according to a DISA official. The Defense Department has increased its purchases of commercial cloud services over the past several years, and now DOD is working to ensure its cloud applications will be protected in a "warfighting situation," according to John Hale, chief of enterprise applications at DISA...

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