Pact sends highly sensitive spy agency data to the cloud

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.nextgov.com/cloud-computing/2012/09/pact-sends-highly-sensitive-spy-agency-data-cloud/58049/

By Aliya Sternstein
Nextgov
September 12, 2012

The Homeland Security Department and a U.S. espionage satellite agency 
are moving highly sensitive data to the cloud, through a project with 
CIA venture funding arm In-Q-Tel and Web startup Huddle.

On Wednesday, officials with the London-based company said the effort 
also involves other undisclosed intelligence agencies. Huddle’s online 
collaboration service enables personnel to locate and create files with 
colleagues internally as well as externally at partner departments.

Huddle officials were not at liberty to discuss whether DHS, the 
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency or the others are using the 
software to share documents with one another. CEO Alastair Mitchell 
would say only that “Huddle is a collaborative tool designed to work 
between agencies, and where that is allowed, we would seek to deliver 
that.”

He added, “this is really happening. It’s a combination of the demand 
being there from customers [and firms] like Huddle being mature enough 
to deliver across agencies.”

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