DoD hesitant on cloud despite AWS security certifications
October 3, 2014
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Editorial Staff.
Government bureaucracy remains slow-moving despite AWS security certifications that allow the cloud provider to host sensitive data. Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the first public cloud to receive a provisional authorization from the Department of Defense (DoD) under the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Cloud Security Model to host Level 3-5 workloads, in late August. Levels 3-5 refer to unclassified, but highly sensitive data. Level 6, which is still excluded from the provisional authorization, pertains to classified data.
Meanwhile, the DoD is methodical in deploying new technologies, said U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Steve Spano, who now works as Amazon’s general manager for defense and national security, in a keynote here this week during the Cloud Computing Association’s Cloud Developers Summit and Expo 2014…
Spano described four stages of public cloud adoption, from test and dev apps to migration of production applications to migration of mission-critical applications and eventually, all-in…
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