Four major cloud providers – Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle – will all participate in a $9 billion U.S. Department of Defense remote computing contract, the Pentagon announced today. The decision to usher four American cloud computing vendors into its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract marks a departure from an earlier winner-take-all approach […]
The Defense Department is seeking to cut back on the use of a “smart” ID card that has long been used by military personnel and contractors. The Common Access Cards (CAC) are now used as “proof of identity and DoD affiliation to facilitate access to DoD facilities and systems,” according to a Pentagon website. They […]
The US Defense Department is inviting vetted white-hat hackers to hunt for vulnerabilities in its public web pages under a pilot bug bounty program. The new “Hack the Pentagon” announced today by DoD officials took the security industry by surprise.
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