12 ways to better merge cloud services with ongoing cyber initiatives

Grazed from FederalNewsRadio. Author: Jason Miller.

In the rush to the cloud over the last three years, most agencies have tempered their desires and excitement because of security concerns. Agency chief information officers have struggled to satisfactorily answer a number of questions regarding data ownership and protection, and how do the existing cross-agency cyber initiatives fit into the cloud structure.

A new white paper by SafeGov, an industry organization promoting safe and secure cloud computing, makes 12 recommendations to help agencies move to an integrated cloud and cyber approach and away from one that is fragmented and ad hoc in many respects. Karen Evans, a co-author of the report and a former Office of Management and Budget administrator for e-government and IT, said this paper is a deeper dive into addressing the growing challenges of integrating cloud and cybersecurity…

"When you are looking at your cybersecurity posture and then moving out or trying to deploy new services, you want to take into consideration all the initiatives you are responsible for. So, we specifically highlighted the ones that are the cross-agency performance goals dealing with cybersecurity and how that needs to be integrated in when you are thinking about cloud services," Evans said. "Architecture is at the heart of that issue…

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