http://www.nextgov.com/cloud-computing/2014/04/public-or-private-cloud-your-agency-decision-comes-down-risk-disa-cio-says/82114/
By Frank Konkel
Nextgov.com
April 8, 2014
For federal agencies, deciding whether information, data or applications
belong in a public or private government cloud or a hybrid combination of
the two is no easy feat.
Myriad factors play into these decisions – projected cost savings,
information sensitivity and availability, to name a few – but according to
U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency Chief Information Officer David
Bennett, the single most important element continues to be risk.
DISA recently rolled out a government-operated cloud computing services
portfolio called milCloud that was designed to attract Defense Department
customers who seek the cloud’s promise of cost reductions combined with
increased control, flexibility and mission security necessary for
classified and controlled unclassified information.
“You have to understand risk and the data you’re dealing with,” said
Bennett, speaking at a Nextgov event Tuesday. “As you look at those
things, you have to ask questions like, ‘What controls do I have in
place?’ We want to leverage commercial opportunities and reap the benefits
of doing that, but we also want to verify and make certain what’s out
there and that we’re able to understand and monitor that.”
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