The Pentagon on Wednesday announced Google, Oracle, Amazon, and Microsoft as the awardees of the new cloud architecture called the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC), which will service across all of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) security domains and classification levels. The driving force behind this multi-cloud, multi-vendor era is the need to push technology to address the DoD unique missions, and to repair gaps in secure access to data at the speed of relevance. Surprisingly, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) complicates this trend. Fully embrace mission elasticity with neutral identity A main benefit of deploying and implementing a multi-cloud strategy is the increase in options when selecting vendors. However, when IaaS are purpose-built to be sticky, organizations and their hard-to-fill cybersecurity teams struggle to figure out how to seamlessly integrate with other applications without putting data privacy and protection at risk. With Okta for US Military, our Impact Level 4 (IL4).