FISMA standards will calm cloud fears, McClure believes

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http://fcw.com/articles/2012/03/22/dave-mcclure-cloud-security-standards.aspx

By Camille Tuutti
FCW.com
March 22, 2012

The federal government might not be in a mad march to migrate its most 
sensitive data to the cloud, but as standards become more cemented and 
processes ironed out, more agencies will move into the space perceived “as a 
little bit risky at the moment,” according to the predictions of a General 
Service Administration official.

As the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program gets rolled out and 
agencies get comfortable with the new standards and the rigid review process, 
there will be a greater tendency to move higher-risk systems and data to an 
outsourced model, said David McClure, associate administrator at GSA's Office 
of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies.

McClure spoke with Federal Computer Week prior to participating in a panel 
discussion on new models of government IT, in a March 21 event hosted by Cisco 
in downtown Washington, D.C.

In the past few years, more agencies have moved to the Federal Information 
Security Management Act's "Moderate" level, and federal security officers have 
grown increasingly more comfortable with the idea of having higher levels of 
security on their systems.

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