NIST Publishes Draft Cloud Computing Security Document for Comment
June 12, 2013
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a draft document on security for cloud computing as used in the federal government. The public comment period runs through July 12, 2013. The NIST Cloud Computing Security Reference Architecture provides a security overlay to the NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture published in 2011. In 2010, the Federal Chief Information Officer tapped NIST to play a major role in accelerating the adoption of cloud computing in the federal government.
Since then, NIST has held meetings, started working groups and developed the U.S. Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap and other related guidance. The 2011 NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture* provided a template and vocabulary for federal cloud adopters to follow for a consistent implementation of cloud-based applications across the government…
This new addition, the NIST Cloud Computing Security Reference Architecture,** contributes a comprehensive security model that supplements the NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture. "The document’s objective is to demystify the process of selecting cloud-based services that best address an agency’s requirements in the most secure and efficient manner," explains Michaela Iorga, NIST Cloud Computing Security Working Group chair…
Read more from the source @ http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/cloud-061113.cfm