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Subject: [ISN] U.S. government wants in on the public cloud, but needs more transparency
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2015-11-20 13:32:20
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1511201332100.32559 () infosecnews ! org
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http://www.computerworld.com/article/3006360/security/us-government-wants-in-on-the-public-cloud-but-needs-more-transparency.html
By Blair Hanley Frank
IDG News Service
Nov 18, 2015
The federal government is trying to move more into the cloud, but service
providers' lack of transparency is harming adoption, according to Arlette
Hart, the FBI's chief information security officer.
"There's a big piece of cloud that's the 'trust me' model of cloud
computing," she said during an on-stage interview at the Structure
conference in San Francisco on Wednesday.
That's a tough sell for organizations like the federal government that
have to worry about protecting important data. While Hart said that the
federal government wants to get at the "enormous value" in public cloud
infrastructure, its interest in moving to public cloud infrastructure is
also tied to a need for greater security.
While major providers like Amazon and Microsoft offer tools that meet the
U.S. government's regulations, not every cloud provider is set up along
those lines. In Hart's view, cloud providers need to be more transparent
about what they do with security so the government and other customers can
verify that their practices are sufficient for protecting data.
[...]
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