National Cloud Computing Principles: Guidance for Public Sector Authorities Moving to the Cloud

Abstract

Governments around the world are actively seeking to leverage the many benefits of cloud computing while also ensuring that they manage risks that deployment of the new technologies can raise. While laws and regulations related to the privacy and security of government data may already exist, many were drafted in the "pre-cloud" era and could therefore benefit from an update and revision. This paper explores some of the concepts that should be incorporated into new or amended laws that seek to guide public sector entities as they move their data and workloads to the cloud.