Cybersecurity

As Defense Department officials accelerate the Pentagon's adoption of commercial cloud services, they're taking a more critical look at the security and the relationships that underpin the move.

Acting DoD CIO Terry Halvorsen is looking for ways to better embrace industry's cloud offerings, including streamlining the military's traditionally complex security requirements, examining new ways of running cloud services and changing up how the Pentagon and industry interact with each other. And he sees such changes as potentially going beyond just DoD.

Pentagon looks to streamline security requirements for the cloud