Canberra’s Secure Cloud Strategy is a key element in the ongoing adoption of Cloud technology by government agencies and departments, and one of the most important tools available to government CIOs. That’s our takeaway from a qualitative survey of Federal government IT leaders, which we undertook while producing the “Perceptions of Cloud Computing in Government” whitepaper for Rubrik.
The strategy was designed to help government agencies use Cloud technology. It defines a Cloud certification model for accreditation of Cloud providers evaluated by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD).
The idea was simple enough: once the ASD clears a Cloud platform, it can be used by government agencies to run either Protected or Unclassified DLM work. A subsequent update removed the ASD’s certification process for those who can provide Cloud services to the government....MORE
