The Department of Defence stood up a suite of protected-level Microsoft collaboration tools for its workforce in less than 11 weeks to support the work from home shift earlier this year. CIO Stephen Pearson told the Technology in Government summit that the virtual environment for remote access (VERA) solution was developed to secure interactions during remote work.
“VERA is our protected-level digital collaboration capability, which uses Microsoft Office 365 applications to enable secure interaction across Defence,” he said on Tuesday.
The platform gives staff access to chat, video conferencing and other applications through Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.
Defence’s most recent annual report reveals the project, which was brought forward from 2021 in response to Covid-19, was developed as staff began working remotely in March....MORE
