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or extremely difficult for employees or contractors to physically access systems for necessary upgrades or patching. In those situations, cloud is a valuable alternative.
In addition, agencies can more readily meet compliance requirements by moving data off-site into specially designed, cloud- based data centers because the security of those centers has improved substantially since 2010, when the Cloud First policy was initiated.
Today’s cloud-based data centers comply
with SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 27001 standards, which means they’ve been audited by outside organizations to ensure that the physical security of the data centers cannot be breached. It is also commonplace for those data centers to adhere to Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, the California Consumer Privacy Act and regulations that govern the protection of information related to criminal justice, health, finance and education.
In the early days, government agencies
had valid concerns about the security of cloud environments, but in the past decade, cloud technology has advanced significantly. In fact, cloud-based storage is more secure today than many on-premises data centers, and it gives agencies the ability to focus on innovation instead of maintenance.
David Boland is senior director of product marketing at Wasabi Technologies.
Learn more at Carah.io/FCW-Multi-Cloud-Wasabi
The number of applications that are eligible for cloud storage has increased dramatically, and cloud has become a primary storage option for enterprises.
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