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Hearing on Hack Prompts Call for Review of Government’s Cloud Procurement
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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 vendors, Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., said after a Congressional hearing Friday.  
“I firmly believe that cybersecurity should be baked into products and services, so it concerns me when I hear that companies could view security logging as a profit center. I understand that cybersecurity isn’t free, but basics like logging shouldn’t be an ‘upcharge,’” Langevin t ....

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