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Microsoft On Friday, engineers use the company’s cloud services, re-reviewed their experiences to ensure technical support for US defense customers.
The company, the changes to reduce national security and cybersaluture, performed changes to reduce the risks caused by a cloud work with a large client. The announcement came a day after a day after Propublicancy Extensive report In China, the Defense Department explains the dependence of Microsoft software engineers.
“In response to the concerns about foreign engineers that earlier this week, Microsoft supported the DOD government to provide technical assistance to the cloud and related services”, “Frank Shaw,” Microsoft General Employee Friday X Post.
The change affects the work of Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Services distribution, the assessment of these analysts now creates more than 25% of the company’s income. It makes Azuru bigger Google The cloud but smaller Amazon Web services. Microsoft receives “significantly income from government agreements” according to the latest quarterly earnings In the statement and more than half of the company, $ 70 billion in the first quarter came from customers in the United States
Won Microsoft in 2019 $ 10 billion Cloud Defense Agreement, but the Pentagon was injured revoke After legitimate battle in 2021. Department in 2022 Cloud contracts gave About $ 9 billion in Amazon, Google, Orace and Microsoft.
Propublicly said that Microsoft’s works of Chinese Azure engineers are controlled by “digital escorts” in the United States, which is less technical than the employees in general. The report was informed in detail that the “digital escort” regulation may leave the United States in a sensitive way for a cyberakak.
“This is not clearly unacceptable, especially in today’s digital threatening environment” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth a video Sent to x on Friday. He described his architecture as a “a legacy system established ten years ago during the Obama administration.” According to Hegseth, the Defense Department will also consider similar activities to their systems.
Microsoft, initially said that Propublica employees and contractors complied with the US government rules.
“We are committed to the US government, including our national security partners, wherever security protocols are needed to assess and adjust our security protocols,” he said.
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