White House officials tout cloud security as important component of harmonization push to buy down risk

Creating more secure cloud services will help raise the baseline on security, according to top cyber officials Anne Neuberger and Kemba Walden, who highlighted how they fit into the administration’s plans for harmonization as part of the national cyber strategy.

“For some organizations moving to the cloud is the way to jump and outsource their security where cloud providers can use the accumulated data across a larger data set to find and rapidly address malicious activity, to patch, etc.,” Deputy...