The move to the cloud brings unprecedented flexibility and scalability, but agencies’ new network architectures are prompting some growing pains as well.
“The idea of having access to any data, anywhere, with the cloud means you have to look at data protection differently,” Sara Mosley, the Department of Homeland Security’s acting CTO, said at ACT-IAC’s Executive Leadership Conference on Oct. 31. While “you still need the perimeter protections,” she said, “you’ve gotta look at it from a data-protection perspective — that’s really where network security is going.”
