Hearing on Hack Prompts Call for Review of Government's Cloud Procurement
Hearing on Hack Prompts Call for Review of Government’s Cloud Procurement vdb photos/Shutterstock email February 28, 2021 A key lawmaker highlighted a profit motive for “basic” cybersecurity as problematic following an exchange with Microsoft President Brad Smith. As federal agencies and private-sector critical infrastructure entities struggle to assess the fallout from what researchers are calling a hack of historic scale, the ability to fully track the intruders' steps should come standard, not as a source of additional profit for government cloud vend...