Microsoft says Investigation this week.
“In response to the concern raised earlier this week, about the US foreign engineers controlled, Microsoft has changed to our US government’s support to make sure no engineering groups based in China Announced on X Friday In the afternoon.
The Microsoft announcement occurred a few hours after Defense Minister Pete Hegset said his agency would study the use of Microsoft Foreign Affairs engineers to help maintain very sensitive cloud systems.
“Foreign engineers are from any country, including of course wrote in a message on x Friday.
In her investigation, Propublica told in detail how Microsoft uses engineers in China to help maintain the Ministry of Defense’s computer systems – with minimal US staff supervision – leaving some of the most sensitive data in the country vulnerable or espionage from the leading cyber. The agreement that was crucial for the victory in the field of cloud calculations of the federal government ten years ago, relies on US citizens with security to observe work and serve as a barrier to espionage and sabotage.
But these workers, known as “digital accompanying”, often lack technical examination in the police of foreign engineers with much more sophisticated skills, revealed propublica.
Earlier on Friday, the republican Senator Tom Kotton from Arkansas, the chairman of the intelligence committee, referred to the propublica in a letter to Hgegset with a request for details about which DOD contractors use Chinese staff to maintain information and computing systems.
China creates “one of the most aggressive and dangerous threats for the US, as evidenced by its infiltration of our important infrastructure, telecommunications networks and supplies”, cotton, cotton, cotton, cotton wrote in a letterwhich he posted on X. “DOD should protect all potential threats in his supply chain, including subcontractors.”
Since 2011, cloud computing companies such as Microsoft, who wanted to sell their US government services, had to establish how they guarantee that the staff working with federal data will have the necessary “access permits” and checks. In addition, the Ministry of Defense demands that people resort to sensitive data that are US citizens or permanent residents.
This has presented a question for Microsoft, which relies on a great global labor with significant operations in India, China and the European Union.
Thus, the technological giant enlisted to hire US digital accompaniment that had security that allowed them to access tangible information to accept direction from foreign experts. The engineer can briefly describe the assignment that will be completed – for example, update the firewall, installing update to fix the error or check -in log to eliminate problems. Then, with a small review, the accompanying will copy and insert engineer commands into a federal cloud.
“We trust that what they do is not malicious, but we really can’t say,” said one accomplisher Propublica.
In a previous statement, in response to the Prapublica Microsoft investigation, its staff and contractors were working in this way, “in accordance with the requirements and processes of the US government.”
The company’s global employees “do not have direct access to customer data and customer systems,” the statement said. Escort “With the help of appropriate gaps and training provide direct support. These staff conduct specific training to protect the secret data, prevent damage and use specific commands/management elements in the environment.”
In addition, Microsoft said it has an internal review process known as “LockBox” to “make sure the request is considered safe or has grounds for concern.”
Insight Global – a contractor that provides digital accompaniment by Microsoft – stated that “evaluates the technical capabilities of each resource throughout the interview process to ensure that they have technical skills” to work and provide training.
Doris Burke have made research.
