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A new strategy outlines how the Defense Department plans to increase security and strengthen relationships across the industrial base.
The Pentagon is working on a shared virtual cloud-based workspace for contractors as a way to boost their cybersecurity and part of a larger strategic effort to make defense companies more secure.
“There are some things that we’re working on with the Office of Small Business [Programs]to develop a purpose-built cloud that some of the small businesses can just shoehorn themselves into and work out of there,” David McKeown, the Pentagon’s deputy CIO for cybersecurity and chief information security officer, told reporters Thursday.
The goal is to introduce a pilot version this year with up to 75 small businesses to determine whether data can be adequately secured in a cloud environment. If it’s successful, the pilot could be scaled and offered to more companies, McKeown said.
