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Defense Department CIO-DISA Release Update To Cloud Security Requirements Guide

Wednesday, April 6th, 2016

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The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Chief Information Office (CIO) through the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) released an update to the Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (CC SRG) on March 25, designated v1r2, the agency said March 28.The update both incorporates and supersedes CC SRG v1r1 and applies to all cloud security provider (CSP) offerings, regardless of who owns or operates the network environments. It applies to all department components and their usage of cloud services, DISA said.The CC SRG provides security…

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