Commercial cloud companies may be able to provide their services to the Department of Defense at higher security levels within the next year, according to a major DoD cloud vendor. DoD ranks its impact levels for cloud security from 1 through 6 with 1 as the least sensitive. Under current regulations, commercial providers can only assist missions at levels 1 and 2. More sensitive data must reside in the department’s privately owned cloud, milCloud. “We are inches away from connecting…