- Joined
- Feb 2, 2016
- Messages
- 34,002
- Reaction score
- 0
NSA ‘Systematically Moving’ All Its Data to The Cloud
PATRICK SEMANSKY/AP FILE PHOTO
By FRANK KONKEL
JUNE 21, 2018 11:31 AM ET
The National Security Agency is all-in on cloud.
The National Security Agency has moved most of the mission data it collects, analyzes and stores into a classified cloud computing environment known as the Intelligence Community GovCloud.
The IC GovCloud is a single integrated “big data fusion environment” that allows analysts to rapidly “connect the dots” across all NSA’s data sources, according to Chief Information Officer Greg Smithberger.
The impetus for the multi-year move is getting the NSA’s data, including signals intelligence and other foreign surveillance and intelligence information it ingests from multiple repositories around the globe into a single data lake analysts from the NSA and other IC agencies can run queries against.
https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2018/06/nsa-systematically-moving-all-its-data-cloud/149179/
_______________________________________________
I read this, and my eyebrows raised. This seems to me to be counter to intelligence norms.
Perhaps someone can enlighten me here, but if this system is breached, is not the entire NSA, and every bit of their intelligence compromised?
Isn't this why compartmentalization exists?
Discuss..........
PATRICK SEMANSKY/AP FILE PHOTO
By FRANK KONKEL
JUNE 21, 2018 11:31 AM ET
The National Security Agency is all-in on cloud.
The National Security Agency has moved most of the mission data it collects, analyzes and stores into a classified cloud computing environment known as the Intelligence Community GovCloud.
The IC GovCloud is a single integrated “big data fusion environment” that allows analysts to rapidly “connect the dots” across all NSA’s data sources, according to Chief Information Officer Greg Smithberger.
The impetus for the multi-year move is getting the NSA’s data, including signals intelligence and other foreign surveillance and intelligence information it ingests from multiple repositories around the globe into a single data lake analysts from the NSA and other IC agencies can run queries against.
https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2018/06/nsa-systematically-moving-all-its-data-cloud/149179/
_______________________________________________
I read this, and my eyebrows raised. This seems to me to be counter to intelligence norms.
Perhaps someone can enlighten me here, but if this system is breached, is not the entire NSA, and every bit of their intelligence compromised?
Isn't this why compartmentalization exists?
Discuss..........