China to develop trust rating index for cloud vendors
December 22, 2014
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Eileen Yu.
China is planning to rate the trustworthiness of cloud computing vendors, allowing only those with full security clearance to partake in government projects. The move could leave foreign companies out of government procurement contracts, according to a report by China Daily.
Zuo Xiaodong, vice-president of industry group China Information Security Research Institute, said: "The basic idea of the security rating mechanism is to find trustworthy hardware, software, and service providers to ensure the government has total control of the entire ecosystem."…
He noted that the Chinese government was developing a cloud security assessment, authorization, and monitoring system similar to the U.S. government’s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program…
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