‘Security, privacy’ main barrier to ‘government cloud’ rollout in EU
March 4, 2015
Grazed from TheRegister. Author: Editorial Staff.
Security and privacy issues are holding back "the cloudification of governmental services" in the EU, according to a new report. The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) said concerns about how sensitive data is protected in a cloud computing environment have not been resolved. It said data security and privacy issues were the main reasons that "deployment of governmental cloud computing is in general at a very early stage (click through for 40-page/3.03MB PDF)" in the EU.
"Security and privacy issues are considered as key factors to take into account for migration, and at the same time are the main barriers for adoption," ENISA said. "Protection of sensitive data is still an issue seeking solution, spanning from the SLA provisions to the actual technological mechanisms i.e encryption etc…
Even though most countries recognise the benefits from adopting a business model like cloud (scalability, resilience, portability), they are reluctant to take the next step and migrate services to the cloud."…
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