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DISA Increasing Cloud Data Platforms And Patching Efforts To Meet DOD Cyber Needs

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, June 28th, 2017

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Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) officials are exploring partnerships with other governmental organizations to test big data platforms like the cloud and conducting audits to meet patching software needs in response to cyber threats associated with rapidly changing technology, according to agency representatives speaking at the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association’s Defense Cyber Operations Symposium the week of June 11.Officials at the conference discussed plans to move to a risk management framework, integrating platforms such as milCloud 2.0 to…

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