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

DISA Increasing Cloud Data Platforms And Patching Efforts To Meet DOD Cyber Needs
DISA representatives speaking at a June 14 panel on evolving cyber protection services at AFCEA's Defense Cyber Operations Symposium. Photo: Matthew Beinart.

BALTIMORE--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 this week.Officials at the conference discussed plans to move to a risk management framework, integrating platforms such as MilCloud 2.0 to handle the Department…

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