NSTAC group previews efforts to develop baseline security principles targeted at cloud providers

Kevin Mandia, founder and former CEO of Mandiant, described early efforts from an upcoming report on baseline security principles for cloud service offerings at a Tuesday meeting of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.

Initial work has focused on getting briefings from “major cloud hyperscalers, federal cloud customers from different sectors, academia and representatives from the government including but not limited to CISA, NIST, DHS, the Office of the National Cyber Director, OMB and GSA,” Mandia said during an...