Recent attacks within US Government personnel systems have brought to light how securing electronic devices, networks, proprietary data and information from incursions by hackers and spies is of paramount concern to organizations public or private. Attacks on these systems should have been prevented by limiting contractor direct access to data systems by foreign nationals and securing systems behind government firewalls as a logical practice. While many are slow to the game, firms like Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure are earning the trust of several government agencies to host aspects of their organizational information. Although these companies are not hosting / managing critical data outside of public non-secure information, they are engaging with government agencies and will eventually become a strident partner for national security.

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