Official: Joint OMB-DHS cloud security guidance to be released 'soon,' with frequent updates once published

A joint Department of Homeland Security-Office of Management and Budget guidance on cloud security will be released “soon,” Federal Chief Information Officer Suzette Kent said this week, and will draw from both government and private-sector experiences with cloud migrations.

“It is coming out soon,” Kent told Inside Cybersecurity, declining to elaborate on the timeline. “The approach is to take many of the things that we’ve learned from the forward-leaning agencies that have actually gone through cloud migrations and use that...