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-=> Rob Mccart wrote to RUG RAT <=-

 RR>I dislike "The Cloud"  I have always looked in disbelief that the US
  >Government, especially the DoD migrated more and more of their
  >infrastructure into the cloud..

 RM> Until the last couple of years I saw no great use for it but I did
 RM> finally start using it the last couple of years. It can have it's
 RM> uses - great for having a backup of files you may need on other
 RM> devices and transferring those files between devices.

There are specific rules for government cloud use - Microsoft's GovCloud
is only housed on US servers. As a rule, you encrypt all traffic on the
wire and encrypt data at rest on volumes. You set up ExpressRoute,
essentially a dedicated line into Microsoft's data space, so your
traffic doesn't go across the public internet to get to Microsoft.

It's good enough for law enforcement and E911 use.

As for the DOD, I suppose nowadays it's as much a private enterprise as
it is government entity with contractor use. They'd need to allow
external access. A cloud is a great way to do so with culpable
deniability. It's Microsoft's Fault!


 
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