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DATA ANALYTICS CLOUD
The cloud frees agencies to focus on mission-critical activities and other projects they couldn’t do before because they didn’t have the time or capability from a technology perspective.
agencies should get to know their cloud service providers’ innovation strategy and security posture, and they should take the time to meet with companies’ security officers and work together through the FedRAMP approval process if necessary. When they’re considering partners or services through FedRAMP, agencies should carefully consider what impact level they need for a particular activity.
The Best Run
The highest level of security inherently limits functionality, so agencies should work with the cloud service provider and the FedRAMP office to figure out which activities truly need to be secured at the highest impact level and which ones can be done at a lower level so that agencies still have security but also flexibility.
Cloud adoption requires collaboration because security and innovation are
constantly changing. Indeed, the pace of innovation has never moved this quickly — and it will never move this slowly again. Therefore, agencies and their cloud partners need to work together to tackle challenges now and into the future.
Tom Padgett is a senior vice president and Laura Grant is head of digital innovation at SAP.
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