When the federal government finally does undertake the task of legislating around cloud computing, it seems very likely that security measures and data privacy will drive the ship. On Tuesday the TechAmerica Foundation’s CLOUD2 commission announced a data- and security-heavy set of recommendations to guide the federal government’s efforts in regulating, adopting and promoting the cloud, following up on a recent Brookings Institution discussion on a proposed Cloud Computing Act that focuses on those two issues. This isn’t surprising, given that these are two areas in which the government can most directly affect the nature of the cloud.
I covered TechAmerica’s CLOUD2 commission when it kicked off in April, highlighting its mission to advise the Obama administration on cloud computing best practices. The commission is comprised of representatives of more than 70 organizations and is spearheaded by Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff. Of the 14 recommendations it made today, 8 of them are focused on security and/or data privacy. They call for everything from the creation of an industry-wide security framework to updating the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (also the goal of the Digital Due Process coalition) to leading the charge to open up transnational data flows across cloud infrastructure.
The commission also calls for, among other things, increased data portability among clouds — something Commissioner Kurt Roemer of Citrix told me it would back in April — and for the modernization of our broadband infrastructure to better support cloud services.
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Source: reuters.com
By: Derrick Harris
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