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Federal Cyber Experts Slam Microsoft's Cloud, Yet Approve It Anyway
March 18, 2026
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An internal government report reveals federal cybersecurity evaluators described Microsoft's cloud offering as a 'pile of shit' due to lack of security documentation, but approved it anyway.
In a startling revelation, a recent internal government report has exposed the federal government's cybersecurity experts delivering a scathing assessment of one of Microsoft's major cloud computing offerings. According to the document reviewed by ProPublica, the tech giant's cloud platform was found to have a lack of proper detailed security documentation, leaving the reviewers with a lack of confidence in assessing the system's overall security posture.
In fact, one member of the evaluation team went as far as to bluntly state:
Source: Ars Technica
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