Arthur McMiler
Mattermost will create an artificial intelligence-ready workflow platform for Microsoft’s Azure Secret and Top Secret cloud environments, an initiative that Corey Hulen, Mattermost Federal CEO, described as advancing the company’s goal of providing new tools to address rising data security challenges.
“The material rise in geopolitical instability and the dramatic increase in global cyber threats, including adversarial use of AI and digital attack vectors, requires rapid augmentation of capabilities within air-gapped environments to more rapidly detect, analyze and defend against new categories of threats,” he said.
Azure OpenAI Capability Enhancements
The AI-ready Mattermost platform will be developed to enhance the capabilities within Azure OpenAI recently authorized for use in Microsoft’s Azure Government Top Secret cloud, including’s GPT-4o. In August, the OpenAI Service was approved under the Azure Government offerings, which had been conferred a High Authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.
The Mattermost initiative will extend to Azure’s air-gapped cloud environments the platform’s operational capabilities in disconnected, edge-based work environments. Such capability extensions are designed to secure collaboration in isolated and sensitive workflows, including team or one-on-one messaging, screen sharing and audio connections. The platform is also designed to enable secure system integration and automation.
Mattermost announced its new Azure initiative during Tuesday’s opening of the three-day AFCEA WEST Conference in Palo Alto, California. For the event co-hosted by the U.S. Naval Institute, the company also said in a LinkedIn post that it is also holding demos for interested attendees on securing communication in disrupted, disconnected, intermittent and low-bandwidth environments.
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