What security issues do government agencies face in the cloud?
In a true public-cloud model a third party owns and operates the computer infrastructure, so agencies would need to rely on those providers to meet security mandates, such as the Federal Information Security Management Act. In the more likely scenario, some agencies, or a coalition of agencies, will operate a private cloud in which certain services or data are kept behind government firewalls. “In these hybrid models, customer databases can still reside inside the firewall so the crown jewels never leave the castle,” said Steve Picot, manager of Cisco Federal’s data center team. The private-cloud model could be augmented using software as a service so that processing or collaboration functions can exist externally. Government agencies will likely adopt the private-cloud model because of the security and compliance issues that exist with a public cloud, said Randal Bryant, a professor and dean of the computer science school at Carnegie Mellon University. Government operations are big en
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