Microsoft Gets Temporary Authority to Host Secret Classified Defense Data – By Frank Konkel (Nextgov) / Dec 19 2019
A Defense agency has granted Microsoft a temporary provisional authority to host data at Impact Level 6 for the next 90 days.
Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure, received an important—albeit temporary—accreditation from the Defense Department this week that allows the tech giant’s cloud to host data classified as secret for the next 90 days.
According to Defense Departmen spokesman Christopher Sherwood, the Defense Information Systems Agency granted Microsoft Azure a three-month provisional authorization to operate its infrastructure-as-a-service offering at Impact Level 6.
“On December 12, the Defense Information Systems Agency granted a three-month provisional authorization to Microsoft Azure to operate its Infrastructure as a Service at an Impact Level 6. The three-month period will be available for pilot projects to ensure policies, processes, and procedures are developed and tested before a longer [provisional authority] will be considered,” Sherwood told Nextgov.
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