Mr. FedRAMP: Understand your data before you move to cloud

Nov 11

Agencies are moving past the pilot phase with cloud, but FedRAMP Director Matt Goodrich wants agencies to control their data before they move further.

By Greg Otto

***”The reason why you would do hybrid cloud is because you have different types of data,” Goodrich said. “I think the government either over-classifies a lot of the data or doesn’t really take the time to actually look at the data and actually understand how to do hybrid environments. That’s not exactly been a best practice. We don’t know how many data centers we have five years ago. If we don’t know what type of data centers we have, how do we know what data we have?”

Goodrich added that it’s important to get ahold of that data, because while each cloud provider offers essentially the same service, the small differences in how each company handles data could be extremely important to each agency’s individual missions.

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