US cyber body to review cloud computing safety, Microsoft breach

A US cyber security physique will assessment points regarding cloud-based id and authentication infrastructure that may embrace an evaluation of a current Microsoft breach that led to the theft of emails from US authorities businesses, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stated on Friday.

The assessment by the Cyber Safety Review Board will have a look at the malicious concentrating on of cloud computing environments, the DHS stated in an announcement.

“Organizations of all kinds are increasingly reliant on cloud computing to deliver services to the American people, which makes it imperative that we understand the vulnerabilities of that technology,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated within the assertion.

The assessment comes after US Senator Ron Wyden in July requested the Federal Trade Commission, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Justice Department to “take action” towards Microsoft following the hack.

Microsoft has been beneath rising scrutiny following revelations that hackers allegedly working on Beijing’s behalf bought maintain of one in every of its cryptographic keys and took benefit of a coding flaw to realize sweeping entry to the corporate’s cloud e-mail platform.

The Cyber Safety Review Board’s assessment will present suggestions to assist organizations defend towards malicious entry to cloud-based accounts , DHS stated.

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