Secure cloud national intelligence sharing

Treasury’s Treasury Foreign Intelligence Network (TFIN) is used to share classified information with other agencies. Treasury’s bureaus and subagencies rely on the network to identify overseas threats to America’s economy and evaluate the impact of foreign sanctions. Historically TFIN suffered unanticipated service disruptions, which often occurred when the system was under heavy use. Prior to modernization, the network was vulnerable to major power disruptions from the local power grid, maintaining the hardware-intensive system was cost-ineffective, and hosting TFIN locally was not aligned with performance and security best practices.

With TMF support, Treasury transitioned to a hybrid cloud solution for a robust IT infrastructure and secure, decentralized network. Accomplishments include:

• Establishing a contract with an enterprise cloud service provider accredited for classified workloads improving productivity and resilience.
• Enabling federated messaging capability with partner agencies for enhanced collaboration.
• Migrating critical applications to a cloud provider for enhanced stability, processing, analytics, storage, and network cloud services.
• Transitioning to a Software as a Service virtual desktop solution.
• Adopting modernized cybersecurity practices to enable continuous monitoring and support compliance with evolving cybersecurity and technology mandates.