Government Prepping Cloud Computing Guidance

Federal agencies in charge of the Obama administration’s cloud computing push intend later this year to issue a comprehensive government cloud computing strategy and new cybersecurity guidance for federal cloud computing, officials said in Congressional testimony on Thursday, as a new Government Accountability Office report urged the government to develop more final guidance.Federal CIO Vivek Kundra told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that the administration is making it a point to take a “deliberate approach” to cloud computing, beginning over the past year with working groups, summits, and establishment of a program management office and some pilot efforts.