NIST Issues Cloud Security Guidelines

The government standards body has launched a wiki to get feedback on its draft policies for securely deploying cloud computing.

Organizations implementing cloud computing should think about security first before deploying a production environment, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

The advice is one of several guidelines NIST has issued in one of two draft documents on cloud computing, which offer the first set of guidelines for how the federal government manages security and privacy in the cloud.

Government agencies look to NIST for guidance in deploying technologies, and the standards body sets security requirements for technology the government uses under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).

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Source: Informationweek
By: Elizabeth Montalbano