The Defense Department’s chief weapons testing body is recommending cloud contracts be renegotiated to better account for cybersecurity risks and needs at a time when the reliance on the infrastructure expands to assist with daily work needs and key initiatives such as data analytics and artificial intelligence use, according to a recent report.
The Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) wrote in its annual report for fiscal 2021, which was released Jan. 27, that the organization will continue to work with cloud service providers to understand how cyber risks to commercial cloud infrastructure can affect DOD – which should renegotiate existing contracts to include independent assessments.
