Tuesday, 10 January 2012 10:49

2012 Predictions: The government’s push into cloud computing will reduce security fears

The coming year will see a big push into cloud computing by the UK public sector as it becomes easier to buy cloud-based services following the creation of the G-Cloud applications catalogue. For the private sector, the message is that if cloud computing is secure enough for government, it's secure enough for them.

The Government expects to open the G-Cloud "app store" in January 2012 and to have 50 accredited products in place by the end of the year, which the public sector will then be able to buy without going through a full tender process. The government's information assurance agency, the Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG), will be involved in confirming these G-Cloud services and deployments are secure.

With this kind of endorsement from security experts, we expect the general level of confidence in the security of cloud solutions to increase significantly during 2012.

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