DISA Authorizes Impact Level 5 to Project Host Federal Private Cloud

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) gave a 12-month provisional authorization to the Project Host Federal Private Cloud (PJHFPC) on April 1. PJHFPC is a platform as a service private cloud that hosts Impact Level 5 (IL5) controlled unclassified information data, and it has systems and services that manage access control, authentication, auditing, monitoring, scanning, patching, configuration management, malware and intrusion prevention, incident response, backup, and disaster recovery. The authorization marks the first IL5 for the PJHPC, making its platform available to DoD and other Federal groups.