Regulation Lagging for Cloud-Based Government Data
October 22, 2014
Grazed from CorpCounsel. Author: Marlisse Silver Sweeney.
It seems that government-based auditors and general counsel may have their heads in the clouds, at least with respect to accessing data that’s stored there, according to Sandra Jontz in Insurance News Net. She says the U.S. government’s rush to adopt cloud-computing technologies “left policy aperture fraught with challenges that caught some agencies unprepared—particularly adjuncts in inspector general and general counsel offices.”
Take, for instance, the Office of Management and Budget. Its policies require agencies to adopt “cloud-first” technology. Yet the same policies don’t provide contract language guaranteeing GCs will have access to the data stored by these commercial cloud services for internal investigations, says Jontz…