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Federal cyber experts called Microsoft's cloud a "pile of shit," approved it anyway

TechnologyMarch 19, 20261 min readAttributed summary
Federal cyber experts called Microsoft's cloud a "pile of shit," approved it anyway
One Microsoft product was approved despite years of concerns about its security.
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In late 2024, the federal government’s cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft’s biggest cloud computing offerings.

The tech giant’s “lack of proper detailed security documentation” left reviewers with a “lack of confidence in assessing the system’s overall security posture,” according to an internal government report reviewed by ProPublica.

Or, as one member of the team put it: “The package is a pile of shit.”

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