NASA is having some trouble making a move into the cloud. In an internal review, the space agency discovered that many of its ongoing cloud initiatives were severely lacking on security — and some had even left sensitive data at risk. Looking over five contracts that it had for cloud hosting, NASA found that "none came close" to meeting the practices it set forth for ensuring proper data security. NASA seemingly failed to write those security procedures into its contracts with cloud hosting services, and in two cases had used those hosts to hold data that, if compromised, could have had "serious adverse effects" on the space agency.
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/29/4568180/nasa-cloud-computing-audit-finds-adverse-security-risks
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