An upcoming executive order will respond to recent hacks using SolarWinds and a weakness in Microsoft’s Active Directory Federation Service and cloud-hosted Office 365 to gain access to the networks of several federal agencies and about a hundred businesses. The order will reportedly include ideas such as a public rating system for software, standards for connected devices, and efforts to modernize agencies’ information technology.
When asked whether the government was thinking of moving federal agencies off commercial cloud services and on to new systems built from scratch, a senior administration official noted there exist “much stronger, innovative technology available that we can move to – including cloud, including security implemented in the cloud, zero[trust]-based principles, and other related areas.”
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