DISA grants provisional authorization at data impact level 5 to PTC Cloud Services

The Defense Information Systems Agency granted a 12-month Department of Defense (DOD) provisional authorization for PTC Cloud Services’ DOD community cloud. PTC Cloud Services (CS) offers a software as a service (SaaS) for systems hosting Impact Level 5 (IL5) controlled unclassified information data.

The PTC CS system is a managed platform that offers clients web applications for product lifecycle management and service lifecycle management hosted in the PTC CS cloud-computing infrastructure and third-party data centers. It is a DOD private/community cloud, and PTC CS systems administrators provide network infrastructure management via out-of-band management connectivity.

This represents the first IL5 for PTC CS, making their SaaS available to DOD and federal communities.