Swiss military cyber specialists leave Microsoft cloud:
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Swiss Military Switches to Open-Source Cyber SolutionsBy October, Swiss cyber forces will migrate from Microsoft to a German-developed OpenDesk to reduce reliance on US cloud services.
- Switzerland’s Cyber Command and electromagnetic operations unit are abandoning Microsoft’s cloud in favor of the open-source OpenDesk platform.
- Concerns revolve around US laws like the Cloud Act potentially granting government access to classified military data.
- OpenDesk, created by the German Center for Digital Sovereignty, is also being adopted by Germany’s Bundeswehr and Austria’s armed forces.
- The Swiss military operates OpenDesk on their own servers and actively contributes to open-source projects, overcoming technical limitations.
Microsoft's cloud-based Office package 365 is not suitable for an army with the highest demands on confidentiality, availability, and integrity.— Simon Müller, head of the Swiss Army's Cyber Command, said that Microsoft's cloud-based Office 365 is not suitable for such a sensitive military context.
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