Good practice guide for securely deploying governmental clouds

The EU’s cybersecurity Agency, ENISA, has analysed the present state of play regarding governmental Cloud deployment in 23 countries across Europe. In this report the countries are classified as 'Early adopters', 'Well–Informed', 'Innovators', or 'Hesitants' based on specific criteria. Finally, the new report presents ten recommendations for successfully rolling out governmental cloud services, as Cloud is recommended as cheaper and safer for data protection of the citizens.

The report presents governmental Cloud deployment in 23 European countries (20 EU Member States): Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Republic of Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and the UK.

• Primary Source

ENIA: Press Release, 15.11.13: Governmental Cloud dissected in new report: Top 10 recommendations for successfully deploying Cloud computing in the public sector (Governmental Clouds) http://www.enisa.europa.eu/media/press-releases/top-10-recommendations-for-governmental-clouds

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