{"id":606232,"date":"2023-02-09T07:48:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T13:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/09\/mod-issues-revised-cloud-strategy-as-it-prepares-to-move-top-secret-data-off-premise-by-2025\/"},"modified":"2023-02-09T07:48:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T13:48:53","slug":"mod-issues-revised-cloud-strategy-as-it-prepares-to-move-top-secret-data-off-premise-by-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/09\/mod-issues-revised-cloud-strategy-as-it-prepares-to-move-top-secret-data-off-premise-by-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"MoD issues revised cloud strategy as it prepares to move top-secret data off-premise by 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/visuals\/ComputerWeekly\/Hero Images\/UK-british-army-union-flag-adobe_searchsitetablet_520X173.jpg\" data-credit=\"dambuster - stock.adobe.com\"  width=\"520\" height=\"173\" alt><\/p>\n<p>dambuster &#8211; stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"content-header\">\n<h2>The Ministry of Defence has updated its cloud strategy, as it prepares to move more of its highly classified data and workloads off-premise in the years to come<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"content-center\">\n<ul>\n<li><i data-icon=\"1\"><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i data-icon=\"2\"><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"contributors-block\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ttgtmedia.com\/rms\/computerweekly\/Caroline-Donnelly-CW-contributor-2022-140x180px.JPG\" alt=\"Caroline Donnelly\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><span>By<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/contributor\/Caroline-Donnelly\">Caroline Donnelly,<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Senior Editor, UK<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\tPublished: <span>08 Feb 2023 13:00<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"content-body\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/news\/252524617\/Ministry-of-Defence-taps-up-NetCompany-to-support-move-away-from-legacy-private-cloud\">The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is revising its cloud strategy<\/a> and embarking on a push to ensure even its most highly classified forms of data are moved off-premise by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The government department has issued a 39-page strategy document that sets out its plans to \u201crevisit\u201d\u00a0 the cloud migration work it has already done because its \u201ctechnology core\u201d remains \u201ctoo fragmented, fragile, insecure and obsolescent\u201d and is jeopardising its threat response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting greater, near real-time analysis of rapidly changing data to combat modern threats is forcing us to revisit our approach to cloud as a means to address legacy application shortfalls,\u201d the document stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not yet exploiting emerging technologies at pace and scale. We have too often traded out technology refresh and have not driven sufficient integration and commonality. Continuing down this path will prevent us from exploiting emerging technologies at the pace and scale required to deliver the defence purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The MoD has several cloud initiatives underway already, including the Cirrus programme, which is focused on delivering cloud and hosting services that can accommodate multiple classifications of data for the defence sector\u2019s users.<\/p>\n<p>The Cirrus programme\u2019s remit also covers the rationalisation of the Ministry\u2019s datacentre estate and the retirement of obsolete legacy systems.<\/p>\n<p>The document confirms that, to date, 400 workloads carrying the \u201cofficial\u201d data classification have moved to the public cloud, but now attention must turn to repeating this process for the Ministry\u2019s \u201csecret\u201d and \u201ctop secret\u201d data, too. \u201cSo far, we have established hyperscale cloud services at \u2018official\u2019 and increased the maturity and evolution of MODCloud, which now offers a mix of public, private and hybrid cloud services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/news\/252489462\/MoD-Defence-Digital-adds-Oracle-Cloud-to-MODCloud-list-of-assured-providers\">MODCloud is the brainchild of the MoD\u2019s Defence Digital department<\/a> and essentially consists of a list of approved cloud providers the Defence sector is authorised to use, with Oracle, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) known to be included on it.<\/p>\n<p>According to data shared with Computer Weekly by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tussell.com\/\">public sector-focused analyst Tussell<\/a>, the MoD has awarded 162 cloud-related contracts with a combined value of close to \u00a3211m since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The MoD strategy document added: \u201cThe steps made to date laid the foundations, but we need a step change for a solution to be seamless to deploy, secure by design, and cost-effective at scale. There are required changes that we can no longer underestimate or delay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A foundational part of the MoD\u2019s cloud work to date includes the creation of what it has termed the Digital Backbone, which it describes as being used to deliver a secure, hyperscale cloud ecosystem to address the needs of multiple data classifications.<\/p>\n<p>The functionality provided by the Digital Backbone is essential because the defence sector needs edge compute capabilities, which can only be made possible by having access to scalable cloud services, the document stated.<\/p>\n<section data-menu-title=\"Multi-cloud approach\">\n<h3><i data-icon=\"1\"><\/i>Multi-cloud approach<\/h3>\n<p>The Department will be pursuing a multi-cloud approach to sourcing these off-premise capabilities, because no one supplier will be able to address the \u201ccomplexity of Defence\u2019s requirements\u201d nor its \u201cevolving ambition\u201d or scalability demands, according to the document.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy 2025, the services required by game-changing military capabilities will be available across Defence, accelerating our level of cloud consumption,\u201d the document continued. \u201cWe will take advantage of evergreen solutions to prevent future obsolescence, and to ensure immediate access to the latest technologies, driving the pace of modernisation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy 2025, we will use cloud platforms as the foundation on which to build capabilities in big data, advanced analytics, automation and synthetics. We will spend the majority of our compute expenditure investing in strategic modern platforms, rather than maintaining obsolete legacy platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the document, the organisation said its aim is to be \u201ccloud-native\u201d as much as possible, with members of the Defence community encouraged to take an MODCloud-first approach to procuring services.<\/p>\n<p>On the topic of procurement, the document confirmed the Department will lean on the Crown Commercial Service\u2019s existing hyperscale-focused cloud compute framework to purchase the services it needs to host its \u201cofficial\u201d workloads.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Ministry is also planning to create a separate framework for use by the entire government for the procurement of cloud services that will be used to host \u201csecret\u201d classified data, which is earmarked for launch in late 2023.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"DigDeeperSplash\">\n<h4>\n\t\t\t<i data-icon=\"m\"><\/i>Read 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