DISA Releases “Best Practices” Guide For Cloud Migration
September 7, 2015
Grazed from BusinessSolutions. Author: Christine Kern.
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has released a best practices guide designed to help Defense Department (DoD) “cloud mission owners” migrate to the cloud. The guide follows the release of three other documents in July regarding cloud computing security requirements.
The “Best Practices Guide for Department of Defense Cloud Mission Owners” is intended to smooth the way for cloud migration among the Department of Defense’s many layers, in response to changes last winter…
Terry Halvorsen, DoD Chief Information Officer, said in a February 25, 2015 statement to the House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats & Capabilities, “Cloud computing plays a critical role in the department’s IT modernization efforts. Our key objective is to deliver a cost efficient, secure enough enterprise environment (the security driven by the data) that can readily adapt to the department’s mission needs. The cloud will support he department’s JIE [joint information environment] with a robust IT capability built on an integrated set of cloud services provided by both commercial providers and DoD components. We will use a hybrid approach to cloud that takes advantage of all types of cloud solutions to get the best combination of mission effectiveness and efficiency.”…
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