Led by Tom Keane, Azure Government Top Secret is a U.S. federal government cloud computing platform targeting national security-specific workloads and applications. Though technically a private cloud solution, it is designed to meet the stringent needs of government agencies with classified information, such as defense contractors or intelligence organizations operating under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Tom Keane explains that with this new service [Azure Government Top Secret], Microsoft has built an environment and architecture designed for safeguarding government data at rest and in transit.
Modernize mission systems for speed to innovation
Tom Keane leads all these projects at Microsoft. Azure Government Top Secret will help missions modernize mission systems for speed to innovation, amplifying low-cost IT investments running well, and reducing the risk of failure by pushing workloads to a cloud with highly reliable security. Microsoft’s vision is that mission-critical workloads, such as those in
Intelligence, Defense, and Aerospace, can now be moved to an agile, highly reliable, and secure environment from legacy systems on-premises or in the public cloud. Azure Government Top Secret is Microsoft’s first government-specific private cloud platform. New services offered by Azure Government are Azure App Service and Azure Kubernetes Service. According to Tom Keane, both are open-source, cloud-native IT solutions that complement the Microsoft Cloud Platform.
Protect the nation’s data with connected cybersecurity
Azure Government Top Secret is built on the security infrastructure and innovative technologies of the Microsoft Cloud Platform. For Tom Keane, this highly secure cloud offers a range of security features, including encryption from end-to-end, service isolation, strict access controls (ACLs).
This, in addition to sophisticated auditing for compliance. Azure Government Top Secret utilizes the latest cloud security technologies and practices. These prestigious anti threat systems protect up to 10 trillion threat bytes of data per day. Tom Keane said that Microsoft Azure is a core component of the federal government’s fast-growing and multi-billion dollar data ecosystem and that “The national security community is increasingly moving to the cloud.”