Microsoft Boasts of a Security Win Ahead of Pentagon Cloud Bids
- Highest cloud security rating expected by early next year
- Clearance would narrow the gap with front-runner Amazon
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Microsoft Corp. is on track to catch up with Amazon.com Inc. by obtaining top federal security authorizations early next year, bolstering the company’s position in the Pentagon’s winner-take-all competition for a multibillion-dollar cloud computing deal.
The software company said Tuesday that it will earn the certification required to host the government’s most sensitive and classified information -- a distinction previously held only by Amazon Web Services -- by the end of the first quarter of 2019.